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The 

Doors of Life 

OR 

Little Studies in Self-Healing 


By 


WALTER DE VOE 


Author of “Healing Currents ** Mystic Words” etc. 



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Copyright, 1909, by 

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY 
[Printed in the United States of America] 
Published, October, 1909 


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(preface 

Experience has convinced me that 
the words contained in this book are 
vital words, charged with healing po¬ 
tency for every receptive mind. 

To the critical intellect they may mean 
little or nothing, according to its contem¬ 
plative depth, but to the soul, for whom 
alone they are written, they will prove 
veritable keys to the Doors of Life. 


Walter De You 







&x6fe of Contents 


PAGE 


I. The Doors of Life g 

II. Health Through Mental Unfold- 

ment ------ 16 

III. The Healing Radiance of Nature - 23 

IV. “Be Ye Transformed by the Renew¬ 

ing of Your Mind” - - - 30 

V. From Whence the Healing Cur¬ 
rents? ------ 35 

VI. “It is the Spirit That Quickeneth” 41 

VII. Value of Affirmation in Develop¬ 
ing Positive Personality - - 45 

VIII. Words of Hope - - - - - 49 

IX. Ministration - - - - - 52 

X. A Little Study in the Sublime - 55 

XI. Meditation Uncovers Soul Wisdom 70 

XII. The Resurrecting Power - - - 77 

XIII. The Spiritual Potency of Tones - 84 

XIV. The Tone ------ 91 

XV. Faith is a Mental Force - - - 97 

XVI. Supreme Faith. 101 

XVII. Faith is the Advance Courier of 

Intuition - - - - 106 

XVIII. Faith Leads to Understanding - - 109 

XIX. I Live by the Faith of the Son of 

God - - - - - -112 

XX. A Healing Treatment for You - - 115 

XXL Soul-awakening Words - 120 


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PAGE 

XXII. We Praise God for Life - 123 

XXIII. Thoughts of Strength Build 

Strength from Within - - - 126 

XXIV. “Ask and You Shall Receive” - - 129 

XXV. As a Man Believes so is He - - 132 

XXVI. What Faith Promises God Performs 13s 

XXVII. “The Mortal Must Put on Immor¬ 
tality” .138 

XXVIII. “I Am the Vine; Ye Are the 

Branches” - - - - - 141 

XXIX. Divine Love is the Life of the Soul 145 

XXX. “He Sent Them Forth to Preach 
the Kingdom of God, and to Heal 
the Sick” - - - - - 148 

XXXI. Meditation on Constructiveness - 151 
XXXII. “Awake, Thou That Sleepest, and 

Christ Shall Shine Upon Thee” 154 
XXXIII. The Great Reality - - - - 157 

XXXIV. “I Am the Way, the Truth and the 

Life” ------ 160 

XXXV. Life is Omnipotent - - - - 163 

XXXVI. “He Sent His Word, and Healed 

Them” ------ 166 

XXXVII. Suffering Shall Cease; God's Will 

is Peace! ----- 169 

XXXVIII. Form Beautiful Pictures for Imita¬ 
tion - - - - 172 

XXXIX. Creative Thought Pictures - - 175 

XL. “Stand Still and See the Salvation 

of the Lord” - - - - - 178 


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PACE 

XLI. “Thy Will Be Done on Earth” - 181 

XLII. Germs of Organizing Power - - 184 

XLIII. God is Immortal Life in Us - 187 

XLIV. I Am a Spirit of Eternal Joy - - 190 

XLV. Prayer for the Passing Soul - - 192 

XLVI. Strength from the Master - - 194 

XLVII. Inbreathing Divine Love - 197 

XLVIII. The Doors to Divinity—Veneration - 200 
XLIX. Benevolence, the Good Samaritan - 203 
L. Amativeness, the Creative Instinct - 206 
LI. Wrong Thinking not the Only 

Cause of Indigestion - 209 

LII. Eat Little, But Eat that Little 

Long ------ 212 

LIII. Meditation on Jesus Christ - - 215 

LIV. A Christmas Meditation - 219 

LV. Decrees for the New Year - - 222 


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T? very faculty of the mind is a sluiceway 
through which healing life can flow into 
the nature; every diversion and every pleasant 
sight can become a means of healing. Much 
of the depression and consequent physical ill¬ 
ness is the result of monotony. Life runs in 
a rut. The same tasks come to hand each 
day. Only a few faculties of the mind are 
called into use and they are exercised to death. 
Little children are no longer punished by be¬ 
ing compelled to write one exercise fifty or 
a hundred times at school, as it was found to 
be the most exhausting work a child could do. 

The economical “piece work” in the facto¬ 
ries, the necessary routine and system of com¬ 
mercial life and the daily drudgery of farm 


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and kitchen, unlightened by soul enthusiasm 
or mental aspiration, can become a menace to 
the health of the victim. It is not the amount 
of actual work performed that enervates the 
system and tires the soul, but the dreary same¬ 
ness, the use of the same brain cells continu¬ 
ously without variation, that wears on the 
nerves and wrecks the most perfect mechan¬ 
ism. Those of phlegmatic temperament can 
plod such pathways for years content with 
little refreshment for soul and with less pros¬ 
pect of future change, but the majority are of 
a temperament which is exhilarated or deprest 
by environment and requires new work and 
new objects to arouse that interest and enthu¬ 
siasm which mean new and invigorating life. 

How quickly a change of scene, a trip to 
the mountains or a visit to friends will bring 
the roses to the cheeks and a new sparkle to 
the eyes. When a physician’s remedies fail 
he recommends a change of climate, often 





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with greater results than were obtained 
through his medicines. 

Anything that will turn the blood into new 
channels and arouse brain cells that have been 
inactive, will conspire to restore health, be it 
a new diet, stimulating to the alimentative 
faculty; a new opportunity to earn more, bid¬ 
ding acquisitiveness to awaken; a new benevo¬ 
lence, calling sympathy into action; new sce¬ 
nery to refresh the perceptive faculties; new 
friends to rejoice the social side of the brain; 
physical culture to quicken ambition and will; 
new science to stimulate the intellect; or a new 
philosophy of life and religion to satisfy the 
need of the higher faculties—hope, spiri¬ 
tuality and veneration. All these are channels 
of life, and fortunate is the one who has 
learned to exercise all, and can turn at will the 
current of his interest in any one of these ways 
of physical and spiritual refreshment. His 
mind will become full-orbed and balanced. 


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He will find life and joy in the interplay of 
his own faculties and will never want for nov¬ 
elty and entertainment. If he can not travel, 
his imagination will see the wonders of the 
world through the eyes of others who flood 
the mails with pictured magazines and post¬ 
cards. Even the monotony of the farm house¬ 
hold has been changed and the household 
saved from insanity by an inflow of sample 
copies, and the revelation of the joys of shop¬ 
ping (by mail) which the modern mail order 
catalog has brought to the humblest home. 

A little people in a small country with min¬ 
iature patches of ground to cultivate and tiny 
boxes for houses would seem subjects for the 
curtailment of thought and incentive, and the 
development of the monotonies of existence. 
But with these limitations the Japanese have 
been a people of culture and contentment. Be¬ 
fore the Occidental mind disturbed the tran¬ 
quillity of their lives their island was paradise, 


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their homes were fairy bowers in gardens of 
gladness and beauty. Every flower was a sub¬ 
ject for a poem and they all wrote poetry out 
of the fulness of their hearts; the art of gar¬ 
dening and the symbolism of stone and tree 
became a religion, helping their minds to wor¬ 
ship before the shrine of beauty; even the 
curve of a twig, the opening of a blossom or 
the skeleton of a dead tree became an object 
of deep contemplation and philosophic specu¬ 
lation, and in their flower kingdom they culti¬ 
vated that inner nature from which flows 
continually the spontaneity of joyous, healing 
life. 

The secret of their contentment was the dis¬ 
covery of the beauty in small things. We 
require large landscapes and new masses of 
mountains to startle our imaginations, but to 
their searching eye a dead leaf curled on a bit 
of water was as a fairy boat, or a cherry blos¬ 
som—a symbol of life and joy. Their eyes 


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could see grandeur and art in the sky-line 
that each day wearies our brain with its terri¬ 
ble familiarity. What we see about us de¬ 
pends upon what our spirit is awakened to 
see and appreciate. 

When I was fifteen years of age the hills 
and river and slough about my home town 
did not arouse in me any conception of beauty. 
One day a couple of men stopt to admire 
the view from our back door, and I wondered 
what they saw in that dreary prospect. 
Eighteen years later I returned to it, and it 
was a source of deep emotion, of inexpressi¬ 
ble charm to me. 

O that I had the monotonous hours of your 
lives! I would transform them into the gold 
of knowledge. The joy of seeing and learn¬ 
ing is inexhaustible. These dreary (?) ave¬ 
nues are lessons in architecture, drawn from 
the master mind of all ages. Your hills and 
fields are verdant with illustrations of botany; 





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your trees carol with ornithological delights 
and your rocks and railway cuttings can reveal 
the mystery of evolution that the Mind of 
things has been working out through eons of 
time. 

Coupled with these objective pleasures is 
the knowledge to be gained from sciences in¬ 
numerable, leading through a vista of mental 
wealth that the length of a hundred lives 
could not exhaust. And then embracing all is 
the synthetic knowledge of the principles of 
life, which are furnished by the contemplation 
of the Cosmos as a whole. All these studies 
unfold the understanding that the soul may 
drink from the fountain of life and find the 
way of perpetual progress through which 
comes endless joy and health. 


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yC AN is a spirit of thought and emotion. 
^ A He possesses a body with a brain and 
nervous system through which he manifests his 
thought-activities. From the very nature of his 
spiritual being, composed as it is of thought- 
energies, he must think and feel in order to 
live. His life consists of thought and feeling, 
and he has only so much life as he can gen¬ 
erate in his mental organism by the process 
that gives birth to thought and emotion. His 
body is somewhat like a musical instrument, 
which can not express more than the per¬ 
former feels and knows how to express. The 
spirit of man grows through the appropria¬ 
tion of new thought and the awakening of 
new feelings gained through new experience 


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or from reading. It must grow to keep in 
health. If the spirit stagnates, physical health 
declines. The Medical Times reports that in 
the English rural districts probably one-third 
of the agricultural laborers who survive the 
age of thirty-five die of paresis, or paralysis 
of motion. The cause, the editorial writer 
maintains, is intellectual stagnation. His con¬ 
tention throughout the article is that constant 
hard brain-work is essential to longevity and 
health. He says further: “It is fortunate that 
in American rural districts at least, the deadly 
insanity to which many of the farmer folk in 
other generations have succumbed, seems now 
to have become obviated by the welcome es¬ 
tablishment in every nook and corner of the 
land, of the library, the ten-cent magazine, 
the telephone and the trolley-car.” 

Too many are limited in their mental ex¬ 
pression to the faculties that deal with the 
material needs of life. Their spirits are bur- 


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dened with material worries and darkened 
with sorrow and care. The outward prospect 
shows little novelty or change and their sub¬ 
jective faculties, which could create an inner 
heaven for them, have been neglected. Many 
of our grandmothers were saved from insanity 
by the consolation afforded by religion, and 
the daily practise of spiritual communion and 
prayer, which turned the thought activity of 
the spirit from the lower faculties to the 
higher faculties of the brain, thus increasing 
the circulation in the upper part of the brain. 
Many owe what health they have to the un¬ 
quenchable flame that burns undimmed in the 
faculty of hope. 

J. M. Fitzgerald, M.D., the eminent 
Phrenologist and Psycho-Pathologist of Chi¬ 
cago, showed me a skull which well illustrated 
the fact that the insane use but a small area 
of the brain. This skull was of a lighter color 
and more porous texture than a skull that had 






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boxed a healthy brain, except in those parts 
that were over the faculties of parental love, 
destructiveness, acquisitiveness and bibative- 
ness. It was the skull of a laboring man, who 
had returned from work one day and found 
that his two children had perished in the burn¬ 
ing of his home. He took to drinking, and 
from much brooding over the loss of his chil¬ 
dren went insane. During the last years of 
his life he tried to kill all who came near, 
imagining that anyone who approached de¬ 
sired to destroy his children. His skull re¬ 
vealed that there was little circulation through 
it to any of the faculties except the last used 
by him, namely bibativeness, from the desire 
for drink; acquisitiveness, from the need of 
money to purchase intoxicants; parental love, 
which brooded over the thought of his chil¬ 
dren; and destructiveness, which would pro¬ 
tect them. If this man could have had his 
mind attracted to new subjects so that the 





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blood would have been drawn away from the 
over-used faculties to those lying idle, it is 
possible that he might have been cured. Prof. 
Elmer Gates has demonstrated the possibility 
of curing and developing weak minds by this 
process. 

Gladstone was the type of mind that con¬ 
tinues to grow until the body is outgrown or 
worn out. He never considered himself too 
old to swing an ax, to acquire new facts, to 
delve into psychic phenomena or cast his 
thought into the form of a prayer or psalm 
of praise to Divinity. He kept his digestion 
keen and active by enjoying the flavors of 
foods as he masticated each bite thirty-two 
times. His brain represents the golden mean 
between the English peasant who dies of phy¬ 
sical stagnation from under-feeding his mind 
and the American business man who over¬ 
feeds his body and suffers from apoplexy as a 
result. 


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I earnestly advise every student of self to 
learn of his wonderful mental possibilities. A 
delineation by a good phrenologist would be 
worth its weight in gold, because it would 
show him his deficiencies and his possibilities. 
He would then have a chart to guide him, 
and he could take up a systematic course of 
training. Most students are canoeing on an 
ocean of mind without chart or compass, and 
they seldom arrive at their destination be¬ 
cause they do not know where they are going, 
or what their own powers are to get to any 
goal of accomplishment. There are forty-two 
mental faculties, the workings of which each 
student of mind should understand even if 
he does not know their location in the brain. 
The division of the mind into forty-two de¬ 
partments of activity is the masterly achieve¬ 
ment of phrenology which simplifies psychol¬ 
ogy and enables each one to easily understand 
the workings of his own mind. A text-book 


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on Phrenology will enable any one in the 
course of a year to better understand him¬ 
self and all humanity. The work of develop¬ 
ing and keeping all these forty-two faculties 
active will require so much attention and will 
afford so much pleasure that minor worries 
and selfish irritation will be forgotten. Peren¬ 
nial youth and health of mind and body is 
only for him whose mind is growing daily 
through the absorption of those thoughts that 
quicken every faculty and thrill every feeling 
with a sense of unlimited life and an infinite 
progression in wisdom. 


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Gftt ^dftng (Rftbtdncc of Qtafure 

“The only atheists I ever knew were not the men that 
lived in the woods , or on the mountains either; they were 
always those who could see no farther than the four walls 
of their little room in the crowded city. It is in the city 
that men forget there is a God." —Arthur Heming. 

hen one walks for the first time amid 
new scenes of natural beauty, and the 
mind is hushed and awed by the solemnity and 
majesty of the mysterious power revealed in 
stupendous crystallized masses or in active, 
intelligent entities, then for a while the veils 
of illusion with which mortal concerns wrap 
the mind, are brushed aside and one feels 
isolated, with himself, as it were, and can 
more clearly gage the relative value of his 
motives and desires. 


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In the stillness of the mortal there comes 
a recognition of the nameless Power which 
slumbers in the rocky hills and is becoming 
active in all the sentient forms of life, and 
something within, call it what you will, 
acknowledges its relationship and oneness with 
all power and proclaims the truth that from 
Universal Power it emerged and now stands 
superior to the slumbering rocks and the active 
forces of nature as a self-conscious intelli¬ 
gence, capable of holding its conscious individ¬ 
uality amid all the violence of force and the 
transforming effects of time, as an immortal 
Witness of the workings of Power in the 
depths and heights of Infinite Wisdom. 

This “I” of us stands serene amid chan¬ 
ging things. It can lose friends and dear ones 
and not be affected thereby, because deep in 
its constitution is the knowing that nothing 
can be lost. Only that small part of the mind 
that deals with mortal affairs, and which loves 


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and hates in a mortal way, is disturbed by the 
false beliefs of loss or gain. When the Spirit 
of Nature has quieted this mortal part, then 
is felt the comforting influence of the truth 
which makes free, the “I” which is with us 
always. 

st Lo, I am with you alway. 

Even unto the end of the world .** 

Then comes the blest comfort of knowing 
our real self which dwells in God—in Uni¬ 
versal Power—and which is not disturbed 
by the loss of mortal wealth or friends 
or even the physical body, because, as it has 
woven a destructible garment of matter for 
temporary use, so it has woven an indestruc¬ 
tible garment of life from the finer substances 
of existence as its permanent form through 
which it comes in contact with all states of 
life and all grades of matter. 

Only from the exalted state of this Christ 


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in us, the Anointed of the Father, can we 
know the absolute truth and find perfect com¬ 
fort and rest, and only by brushing aside the 
veils of the mortal mind and of the subcon¬ 
scious mind, with its illusions of psychic fas¬ 
cination, can we know and rest in the Self¬ 
hood, the center and source of individual 
power. 

This soul of you holds the key to all 
power, plus health, wealth and happiness. The 
ancient mystics were so constituted mentally 
that they were willing to forsake the pleas¬ 
ures of the world and all its activities for the 
joy of knowing this Divine Self, and so they 
left the haunts of mortals and lived in those 
crystal-clear solitudes of nature where noth¬ 
ing could disturb the awakening of the Self¬ 
hood of power. They soon realized that in 
their own natures were the occult doorways 
through which power and intelligence could 
come to them from any state of the Univer¬ 


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sal Mind. Like them, you can find the center 
of power in yourself and that exhilaration 
of spirit which makes work easier and health 
secure. 

Go forth into the quietness of the woods 
when you can, and become harmonized to 
the songs of the birds and to the many voices 
of nature’s little people, and in this contem¬ 
plation of the music of outdoors you will for¬ 
get the cares and worries of the days of the 
past and feel a great and wonderful healing 
relaxation. Close your eyes and imagine 
that the warm invigorating sun above you is 
the vitalizing presence of God. Identify the 
warmth which permeates your body and the 
harmonious vibrations of nature with His 
Presence. They are the outer vibrations of 
His Presence radiating vitality and strength 
to you. Inbreathe into every cell of your be¬ 
ing this vitalizing vigor of infinite space. As 
you rest with your eyes closed, your sense of 


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feeling will be quickened, your mind will not 
be distracted by the sight of external things, 
and you will come in touch with the perfect 
harmony and vitality which flows into nature 
from God, the Spirit of nature, and in this 
meditation you will feel that you are in the 
healing glory of God’s Omnipresence. You 
will feel that every part of your body is sat¬ 
urated with His Vitalizing Life. God will 
seem more real in this vitalizing glow which 
permeates your being. Then in this profound 
harmony hold these thoughts: 

My soul is one with all the vitality of na¬ 
ture. 

My soul is a magnet drawing to itself all 
these healing currents of nature. 

My soul is absorbing these finer essences 
of life which fill the atmosphere; absorbing 
all the strength which my nature needs and 
all the elements of which there is a deficiency 
in my system. 


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I am a living soul, being clothed with the 
glow and glory of God’s Infinite Vitality. 

I am intelligent soul power, searching 
through the depths of nature’s storehouse of 
life for the healing essences, for the vitali¬ 
zing powers, for the mystic medicines of heal¬ 
ing with which God has stored His universe. 

Mother Nature, I am drawing on thee for 
physical power. 

Infinite Father, I thank Thee for this real¬ 
ization of Thy Omnipresent Life . 


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IV 

“ QSe Tge £tdneformeb Bg tf>e (Renewing 
of TSow (ttttnb " 

CJcience and religion are both turning 
^ their attention to the great fact that 
“ ’Tis the mind that makes the body rich,” as 
Shakespeare said. The body is seen to be 
but the organ of the mind, and muscles and 
nerves express little or great energy, accord¬ 
ing to the strength of the mind that invigo¬ 
rates them. I have compared the skulls of 
several types of minds, and have found that 
the very grain of the body structure revealed 
clearly, by its quality and texture, whether the 
spirit that had used it was fine or coarse, in¬ 
telligent or stupid. 

The lesson is obvious. Change the qual¬ 
ity of your spirit by the renewal of your 
mind and the tone of life must reorganize; 

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the cells of bones and tissues to represent the 
new positiveness of your character. 

Professor Anderson, of Yale, registered the 
strength of the right and left arms of eleven 
young men. The average strength of the 
right arm was hi pounds; of the left, 96 
pounds. The men were put upon special ex¬ 
ercise with the right hand only, with instruc¬ 
tions to center their thought wholly on the 
left. At the end of a week tests of both arms 
were again made. The average strength of 
the right arm had increased six pounds, while 
that of the unexercised left had increased 
eleven pounds, thus proving that the concen¬ 
trated thought exercise exerted even a greater 
force in developing the muscles than the phys¬ 
ical exercise without the accompaniment of 
mental influence. 

Would it not be well to combine exercise 
and concentrated thought to the more perfect 
development of physical strength? 





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Sanford Bennett, of San Francisco, at the 
age of fifty was physically an old man, worn 
out, rheumatic, a chronic dyspeptic and par¬ 
tially bald, with other minor ailments char¬ 
acteristic of age. Now, at the age of sixty- 
eight, these indications of physical decay have 
disappeared. He claims that any one who 
will practise systematically and persistently 
the method he used, can attain the same phys¬ 
ical rejuvenation. 

The debris or ashes resulting from the 
process of life clogs the system with matter 
which causes old age. When the muscles are 
exercised, this clogging matter is forced out 
and the increased circulation brings an in¬ 
flow of new life. Bennett gained his new 
strength and perfect muscular development 
by simply contracting and relaxing all the 
large muscles in the body while lying in bed 
in the morning. 

An erect position is conducive to a greater 


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degree of mental positiveness, but invalids 
can practise in bed a little at a time, being 
careful not to overdo. 

Illustrations: Grasp a roll of paper, con¬ 
centrating on the strength in the muscles of 
the hand; relax and repeat. 

Draw the forearm toward the shoulder 
slowly until all the muscles are contracted; re¬ 
lax and repeat. 

Move the head slowly in a circle to tense 
the neck muscles. 

Each muscle in the chest, back and abdo¬ 
men can be contracted after a little attention 
and direction of the will. 

The leg muscles can be contracted by stoop¬ 
ing or making the legs rigid. 

The whole mind should be thrown into 
the muscles, being used with the idea that 
strength is there and life is flowing freely 
through every cell. 

The affirmation, “I am strength in these 


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muscles,” will concentrate the mind effect¬ 
ively. 

Persistence in these exercises—not over¬ 
doing at any time—will bring a great reward 
in development of will. It will require an 
exertion of the will to persist, and then the 
tendency of all muscular work is to react 
and strengthen the will. As a means of 
learning to concentrate the mind, it has no 
equal. 


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ifrom Whence ffle ^eaftng Currents ? 

fTl here are refined forces—healing cur- 
A rents—about us that it is possible to 
feel. They exist around us in the realm of 
Mind. 

There are mystic words that we can use 
to come into mental rapport with these heal¬ 
ing currents. 

The Power of Perfection—the Divine 
Healing Spirit—dwells in the Realm of 
Ideas and is the Spirit of Ideas of Absolute 
Truth. This is a deep arcana of wisdom for 
meditation. 

The Absolute Being, beyond thought, be¬ 
yond the realm of knowledge, beyond mind, 
beyond everything, is conceived in the Mind 
of the Universe as myriads of celestial 

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Images, Prototypes or Divine Ideas. These 
Divine Ideas embody in the higher realms 
the meaning of the Truth that they repre¬ 
sent, hence they are the principles, powers 
and revelations of the Divine Perfection. 

The Power of Omnipotence is not material 
or elemental forces. The material world and 
its forces are but crude reflections of true 
Power. The wild, erratic forces of nature 
can not work in harmony with the purpose of 
God and can not reflect the Wisdom of Om¬ 
nipotence until the mind of nature has be¬ 
come more wise and peaceful, and that can 
not be until man, the great disturber, comes 
into unity with the harmony and wisdom of 
Omnipotence. As long as the mind of the 
race as a whole is disturbed by passions, 
pains and selfish propensities, man and the 
mind of nature can not reflect the true power 
and wisdom of Omnipotence. 

Above the realm of nature forces and be- 


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hind and within the surging turbulence of 
mental forces, is the Divine Realm of Peace 
and Power. Man holds the key to that 
Realm when he understands that its quality 
is life, truth and love—all that is good, beau¬ 
tiful and joy-creating. He can open his mind 
to receive of its power by thinking, feeling, 
speaking and acting as do the inhabitants of 
that immortal realm. 

Words that awaken true thought and feel¬ 
ing will link his mind to those Ideas of Pow¬ 
er which exist in the celestial states of 
life, and he will feel the healing currents of 
the Spirit of Truth entering into his being. 

Jesus realized that he was an emanation of 
Divine Truth, a revelation to the mortal 
world of the power of the soul of man, and 
also the type of every soul; therefore, he said: 

“He that believeth on me. 

The works that I do shall he do also; 

And greater works shall he do.” 


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This is a challenge to every soul to make 
visible the power that it has by divine birth¬ 
right. 

Man’s mind is kept in unity with God 
through ideas of Truth. Man’s soul is an 
Idea of God that exists in his interior nature 
in a passive state until his body and mind are 
developed to receive and express soul power. 

Divine Ideas are souls—immortal souls— 
individualized powers of God—that exist on 
earth and in heaven to do the Will of Om¬ 
nipotence. 

The Man of Galilee educated His mortal 
nature—the son of man—until it perfectly 
exprest the interior power of the Divine 
Idea—the Son of God. 

You, dear fellow pilgrim, with all your 
conceits, your weaknesses and your sins, are 
the son of man—a transient figure on the 
stage of time; but there is within your mortal 
nature one more ideal—an Image of Perfec¬ 


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tion, a Son of God—whose consciousness 
shall live and blend with the Consciousness 
of Divinity when all these earthly scenes and 
woes shall have become as the troubled dream 
of the night that is past. 

Awake, O comrade of the celestial cycles, 
and grasp this mighty, saving truth! 

Your soul is an Idea of Omnipotence. You 
are Power. In your true being you are life 
and health and perfection now. 

How shall you realize it? By identifying 
your little intellectual mind, and your lim¬ 
ited selfish feelings, with that soul power 
within you, which is the wisdom and image 
of Divine Love. You have the wrong con¬ 
ception of power if you think of it as aught 
but a mighty spontaneity of Love. Strike 
this chord in your nature, and Divinity will 
respond and melt your pains and woes into 
the blissful harmony of Divine Being. If 
these words arouse you to see a new light, or 


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if they strike an untouched chord, do not let 
them depart from you, for they are mystic 
words of truth that will hold you in unity 
with the healing currents that flow from the 
everlasting Fountain of Life. 


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“3f ts $e ££pmf tfrrt Qutcfteneff^ ” 

f 1 1 here is the possibility of a hell in the 
A wrong combination of the qualities of 
man’s mortal mind, as there is the fact of a 
heaven in the orderly unfoldment of his soul 
nature. He lives in hell here or hereafter 
temporarily, according to his state of mind. 
He creates fantoms of fear and feels the 
burnings of remorse, and is surrounded by 
the imps of false belief, which torture him 
with physical and mental pain until he learns 
the truth which makes him free—until he is 
baptized, truly baptized, with that inner 
presence of the Christ—the baptism which is 
more than the baptism of water—the baptism 
of the fire of the Spirit of Christ. Then, and 
not till then, does he realize what the words 


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“Holy Communion” mean. He may have 
drunk gallons of wine and eaten pounds of 
blest bread at the communion table, yet the 
fires of hell may have been raging all the 
while in his interior; and he may know noth¬ 
ing of external communion, and never have 
entered a church, and not realize the mean¬ 
ing of ecclesiastical forms and ceremonies, 
and yet truly partake of the holy communion 
with Christ. In this communion “spiritual 
and material elements are mystically united” 
in man’s own nature. There could be no 
other place but this holy temple, which God 
has made, for any true communion with God 
or any reception of the mystical blood and 
body of Christ. 

Pay no attention to Paul’s words of con¬ 
demnation when he says, “Let him be ac¬ 
cursed,” for that is plainly the mortal mind 
of him talking. Neither believe that curses 
upon human souls could emanate from so wise 


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and compassionate a spirit as Jesus, or that 
they could be the decree of Almighty Com¬ 
passion. 

Suffering is often a means of grace to the 
mortal nature, but never to the soul nature. 
The mortal nature is sometimes helped by it 
and sometimes hindered and hardened by it, 
but when it is helped, through this means, it 
is by reason of the fact that suffering less¬ 
ens the bond of attraction to material things, 
so that the higher faculties have an oppor¬ 
tunity to develop. Still, I should not like to 
see humanity tortured by disease for the sake 
of the little good that would come from it, 
because I believe that in the great evolution 
of souls, they can get that good in the spir¬ 
itual world in far easier ways. 

I should not deny that there is punishment 
both here and beyond the grave for vicious¬ 
ness of character, but I should deny that 
there is any devil outside of man as the pun- 


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ishing agency. The punishment is the work¬ 
ing of the inherent laws of man’s nature. 
When his will conflicts with the Divine Will, 
the friction produces pain. 


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VII 


QJafue of (glffmnatton tit ©etiefopmg; 
(f>oettit»c (pereonaftfg 

HERE is a sense of being aroused by 



A the assertion, “I AM,” which, when ex¬ 
ercised, gives one a feeling of conscious power. 
At first this is felt more sensibly if the eyes 
are closed and the whole mind is concen¬ 
trated on the assertion of being, in the use 
of the words “I am.” 

Persistent affirmation of positive states of 
mind polarizes, or draws to a center, the neb¬ 
ulous thought elements of mind, so that 
one gains a personal grasp of one’s self and 
feels positively powerful to be and do and 
overcome. Practised in the morning for a 
while, it gives one a sense of poise that re¬ 
mains all through the day. 


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In my own nature, personal consciousness 
was evolved from a state of subjective vague¬ 
ness to a state of objective power through 
months of mental assertiveness. 

The development of positiveness will give 
life, virility, and enduring quality to all your 
physical and mental work. 

A lady of over eighty years of age, whose 
passionate temper was dreaded by her chil¬ 
dren, has now become a beautiful, harmonious 
character through three years of affirmation 
of truth. 

“Nothing is at last sacred,” says Emerson, 
“but the integrity of your own mind.” 

Until you have been by yourself and af¬ 
firmed yourself till you know your own tone 
and quality as an individual separate from the 
mental influences that surge about you, you 
do not know yourself and have little power to 
impress others. 

I feel myself to be a vital personality. I 


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affirm what I am and sustain that tone and 
feeling with my patients, and even at a dis¬ 
tance they feel the dominance of the Tone of 
Being, and their minds respond and vibrate 
with me into a new joy and greater realiza¬ 
tion of vitality. 

To treat a person absently, affirm the posi¬ 
tive life that you feel in your own body, 
as, “I AM life/' until you realize that 
life force growing vivid and strong within 
you; then use affirmations for the patient 
similar to the following, after having re¬ 
peated the name or thought strongly of the 
person for a few moments. 

I am positive life for all your flesh. 

I infuse your being with mental energy. 

I radiate joyous strength through your 
spirit. 

I am so radiant with healing power that 
none of your ailments or thoughts can come 
to me or reflect back on my mind or body. 


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The peace of Jesus Christ now radiates 
about me. 

All conditions about me are subject to His 
word of infinite peace. I turn my attention 
to Him and rest in His mind that my soul 
may be filled with His immortal light. 

All my physical ills are transformed into 
the perfect substance of the Spirit. 

The peace and power of Jesus Christ abide 
with my soul. Every cell in my nervous sys¬ 
tem is so charged with healing peace that 
there can be no place for pain or discord. 

The emanations of the Living Christ are 
food and drink for my soul, building it 
strong in the positiveness of the Divine Spirit, 
nourishing it with the warm, vitalizing rays 
of Life, restoring it to the consciousness 
which it had with the Father, that it may 
express His Power and Truth in all its ways. 


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VIII 


WorbB of ffjope 

Wf E know that we are near the dawning 
* * of a new day, when God’s beloved 
shall not be helpless under their burdens of 
sickness or fear, wrong or oppression, pov¬ 
erty or sorrow. 

They must be taught that “as a man think- 
eth, so is he,” and that they can come into a 
full and satisfactory knowledge of the God 
Power which lies slumbering within them. 

We possess the golden key that unlocks the 
door of Truth. We will not allow them to 
remain in ignorance of the blest truth that 
sets the prisoners free. Ignorance is the 
chain that binds. 

No one need be opprest; no one who is 
willing to develop the all-powerful spiritual 
force need be in bondage. 


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Thought is practically omniscient. It re¬ 
veals the goodness and power of God. All 
high revelation is of the goodness and power 
of what is true—the reality. True thought 
is luminous. It is the light of God’s Mind. 
Its pure intuitions endow the mind with per¬ 
fect faith. It is a mighty demonstrator of 
the hidden virtues and powers of the soul. 

It has been shown that false beliefs, with 
no basis but the vanity of mortal thought, 
cause poverty, pain, sickness and death. This 
being true, may we not expect most wonder¬ 
ful results when our thoughts and our faith, 
as a living whole, are grounded in the Power 
of the Presence of God? All the goodness, 
mercy, power and wisdom of the eternal God 
are here; we have but to awaken to this truth 
and realize the richness of His Presence. 

Divine truths should be held in the mind 
until they become the real foundation stones 





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of our rational thinking. They will become 
illuminated gems whose light will dissolve 
all dark emanations from our presence. 

Those who have received the light and 
ascended the mount of holiness, know that 
they are all Spirit here and now. 

It is the same power that guides soul and 
star alike. 

Fill the cells of your being with the wis¬ 
dom light, which is the glory of God, then 
these living cells will manifest life and Spirit. 
They will radiate the exalted glory of the 
living, eternal God. This God-life infused 
into your nature will endow you with a 
mighty healing force, which you, in turn, can 
impart to the sick. 


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IX 


OtintBfrafton 

T n the name of our Merciful Master, let us 
* strive to dissolve the heavy burdens that 
destroy the mortal bodies of humanity. They 
are overwhelmed by sorrow and pain and 
those lingering sicknesses that waste the life 
force and tissue until they are sick unto dis¬ 
solution, and spirit and body separate before 
they receive the spiritual education this plane 
affords. 

Let us pray that they may receive the 
precious truths that will reveal the manifes¬ 
tation of the law of eternal Good, that this 
law may work in and through them, and that 
through it they may realize the Comforter 
from the Father. Through this knowledge 
of truth they will awake from the Adam 
sleep to the realization of eternal life. 

When truth is imparted to a patient by 


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means of the silent or the audible word, it 
displaces the psychical or sense illusions which 
are at the root of the physical disturbance 
and helps to form or reform the inner man in 
the image of a heavenly spirit of health and 
harmony. Thus we might truly say that when 
disease is healed by spiritual means, it is the 
outcome of the evolution of a new man, or 
the unfoldment of the powers of the spiritual 
man from within. 

The unspiritual mind, with all its illusions, 
must be dethroned, the errors of understand¬ 
ing must be subverted and dominion given to 
the higher spiritual mind, in the image of 
Christ. The luminous Christ-mind will dis¬ 
solve the errors, illuminate the animal range 
of the mind which is filled with lusts of de¬ 
ceit, dissolve the false attractions and change 
all the former ways of living. Through 
faith and the holiness of truth, all states of 
the mind will be regenerated. 


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My spirit is folded in the healing peace of 
Jesus Christ. 

I realize that it contains within itself the 
potency of divine life, which can spring forth 
with soothing power through all my nerves. 

I bless my flesh with the soothing power 
that flows from the consciousness of Christ’s 
presence. 

The very source of disturbance, the inner 
cause of it, is banished from my mind. 

It must be utterly dissolved from my con¬ 
sciousness. 

The light of the healing Christ dissolves 
all pain from my nerves, soothes them, har¬ 
monizes them. 

I am radiant with Divine Peace. 

I am a spirit of immortal peace and har¬ 
mony, and every cell in my body must feel 
the peace of my soul. 


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X 


fetttfe ^fubg tn f0e ^uBftme 

OD is Love, the Supreme Attraction, 
abiding within the sublime state of the 
soul universe, the inmost universe, which 
gives spiritual life and power to the mental 
universe and to the material universe, as the 
individual soul of man by its presence gives 
life and power to the human mind and body. 

The omnipotent attraction of God is modi¬ 
fied in its expression through the mental uni¬ 
verse out to the most negative degrees of the 
material universe, translated, as it were, into 
terms of mental and material attraction. 

The attractive power of His love appears 
in its expression through matter to be but a 
mechanical law of attraction, and the intelli¬ 
gence in the law or power does not appear 
until the evolution of the higher forms of 


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life, but this appearance of mechanical cold¬ 
ness is due to the negativeness and grossness 
of substance as well as to the absolutely im¬ 
personal and impartial character of the love 
of God. 

The omnipotence of His love may be bet¬ 
ter comprehended from the concrete revela¬ 
tions of astronomy. Our sun is a mighty 
electro-magnet for the generation of the least 
powerful expression of God’s attractive 
force; but the action of this great magnet 
upon the planets, which are less powerful 
magnets, reveals to us an operating power 
mysteriously grand. 

And the far-seeing telescope reveals that 
all the fixt stars which illumine the dark 
spaces of infinitude above the earth and below 
the earth, out into the vast universe in all 
directions, are all of them mighty suns, most 
of them of so immense a size as to stagger 
all belief. They are as much larger than 


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our sun as our sun is larger than the earth, 
and it is a fact that it would take one million 
three hundred and ten thousand globes the 
size of the earth to make a globe the size of 
our sun. Add to this the fact that each one 
of these glorious suns is, like our sun, the 
parent of a number of planets, and that each 
one of the many planets swinging in harmony 
around the parent sun is inhabited by forms 
of developing life and intelligence, and we 
begin to gain a more comprehensive idea of 
the magnitude of God’s universe and the om¬ 
nipotence of His love, which is the source 
of that attraction so universally active. 

However, we have gone but a step toward 
the comprehension of the infinite Power of 
His love, even in its material aspect. We 
have all viewed that belt of bright mist which 
encircles the starry heavens. It is now 
claimed by astronomers that the milky way 
is, to our vision, the massed effect of count- 


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less myriads of suns; that each point of light 
in that great belt of light is the distant gleam 
of a shining sun, but so far away are those 
suns that they all melt into a perspective of 
misty light. And our sun is one of the suns 
of the milky way; we are part of that great 
belt of light, and equally distant from each 
other are those suns in the distant mist as are 
the suns which around us seem scattered so 
widely apart. Ah, does not the mind dilate 
with wonder at the majestic power of the in¬ 
finite and Eternal God—the Omnipotent 
One! 

And your body is an image of His great 
Body. How so? The atoms which compose 
your body of flesh are approximately as far 
distant from each other as the planets and 
suns swinging in the universal ether, and by 
the same law of attraction the physical atoms 
of your body exist and act together in har¬ 
mony. 


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And your superiority over all animal forms 
is in this, that you not only have in common 
with animals an organization of physical 
force from the material universe, and a spir¬ 
itual organization of mental force from the 
universe of mind, but you have also an or¬ 
ganized soul form of wisdom and love from 
the Soul Being of God. God has organized 
all states of His infinite nature into your 
complex being. In you Universal Intelli¬ 
gence becomes self-conscious, and from your 
experiences gains material knowledge. The 
vast sensorium of God’s Mind is imprest 
by every incident in the life of every creature, 
even to the least. Not a sparrow falls to 
the ground without the Father’s knowledge, 
because the mental organization of the spar¬ 
row, as of every creature, is in and of the 
Universal Mind, and all the experiences of 
each mind tend to increase the knowledge of 
the Whole, for without individual expe- 


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riences in negative and limited states of life, 
there could be no knowledge of what would 
transpire in such states. 

The Infinite Mind could not conceive of 
the possibilities latent in matter without lim¬ 
iting itself and coming into some relationship 
with matter. 

It is a common belief among many that 
the attribute of omniscience enables God to 
know every incident in every life in universes 
which are yet unevolved. But the quiescent 
sensorium of the Universal Mind awaits the 
unfolding of future possibilities which shall 
fill it with positive knowledge. It is as yet 
a blank page upon which the finger of time 
has not written. 

God is the sum of all principles and 
possibilities, the infinite Presence in which 
all principles and possibilities are forever 
evolving, and the mingling and interblend¬ 
ing of His positive and negative elements 


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and attributes is the creative bliss of 
Being. 

The Universal Mind contains the record 
of every event in earth’s history. In this 
Mind, which pervades interplanetary space, 
are objective spiritual realms, showing all the 
scenery of the natural world, but of a refined 
beauty far surpassing the scenery of the ma¬ 
terial plane. And in these realms of Mind 
exist all living creatures who have worn the 
mortal form. From the natural attraction of 
like to like, those of like temperaments and 
loves are associated together in the enjoy¬ 
ment of those things which are conducive to 
the expression of their peculiar talents. Thus 
the musical faculty of the God Mind is a 
realm of musicians. They are the ideas of 
God that live in and perpetually evolve mu¬ 
sical thought. The artistic faculty of God is 
a realm of artists, who spend their time in 
the enjoyment of art expression. And thus, 





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through the whole category of evolved sci¬ 
ences, arts and philosophies. Whenever a 
man has discovered a new possibility in na¬ 
ture and developed that possibility by the 
concentration of his mind, there has been de¬ 
veloped a new store of definite knowledge in 
the Universal Mind, and all future beings 
have been enriched thereby. 

That definite knowledge was not In the 
Mind of God previous to its discovery by 
man, taking for granted that the same fact 
had not been discovered on another planet. 
The principle at some previous time was 
there, but it was for man to apply the prin¬ 
ciple in order to reveal truth in its negative 
aspect. 

If one studies and loves music, then there 
is formed a telepathic connection between 
his mind and the realms of music in the Mind 
of God, and if music is the dominant love 
and motive of his life, he will, when freed 


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from the flesh, enter into companionship with 
those who also love music, to whom music is 
the grand passion of life. So with every love 
of man’s nature. We are one in thought 
with that which we love, from a like state 
of the Mind of God we receive our inspira¬ 
tion while incarnate, and when we enter the 
spiritual world—free to go whither our will 
may take us—our home will be where our 
love is. Through all worlds and universes, 
material and spiritual, the law of attraction 
reigns supreme, and through it is the wisdom 
and purpose of God—which is Love—re¬ 
vealed. As the Mind of God pervades His 
vast Universal Body, and is life to it in every 
part, so the mental and physical universes are 
held in the embrace of His omnipotent Love, 
and we, created in His image and likeness, 
are related to all three states of His Being— 
we are flesh of His Body, mind of His Mind, 
and soul of His Soul. We may live in the 


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limited thought of the senses, in the broader 
understanding of the mind, receiving knowl¬ 
edge from the Universal Mind, or in the 
deeper consciousness of the blissful love of 
our Father, whose throne of love is within 
our souls. 

The mighty power which holds the vast 
universe in perfect organization, has organ¬ 
ized itself into an individual soul within us, 
and through our souls we are in direct com¬ 
munication with the power of God, which is 
love. In fact, Love is the power of our be¬ 
ing, the source of our life and intelligence, 
and as we educate our minds to receive its 
divine wisdom—to realize it—we shall feel 
its power reorganizing our nature according 
to a more perfect pattern, according to the 
wisdom of the God Idea. We are but lim¬ 
ited and imperfect manifestations of its like¬ 
ness and image, because of our limited per¬ 
ception and realization of the Mighty Pres- 


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ence of Wisdom and Love within us. There 
is no limit to the power of Love. God’s ex¬ 
pressions increase in beauty, grace and per¬ 
fection, as they develop in the wisdom of 
love. Peace, perfection and prosperity are 
the natural expressions of the presence of 
His Love, when it is not limited by mortal 
thought or desire. When our thought is 
focused on outward things for gain or pleas¬ 
ure, it soon meets an obstruction which limits 
and causes dissatisfaction. 

In study and contemplation of the truth 
the mind finds peace and harmony, for it 
listens to the “voice of many waters”—the 
harmonious music of eternal verities. 

But the true and enduring satisfaction that 
alone satisfies the soul and attunes the mind 
and body to heavenly harmony, is the satis¬ 
faction felt in union with the blissful love of 
the Father. In communion with the Father 
the soul realizes its eternal nature in God 


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and rejoices in His love, as a child in the 
arms of its loving parent. 

In His arms of love the soul becomes a 
creature radiant with the glory of the Father. 
His love informs it and transforms into 
health the physical instrument through 
which the soul expresses. 

The wisdom of God is the revelation of 
the eternal principles of His Being, and this 
wisdom with its power can only come through 
continuous devotion. The operation of di¬ 
vine principles may be understood by the 
mind, but the secret of His Presence is won 
only by sincerest love and devotion. Realiza¬ 
tion of God—satisfying realization—comes 
by loving much, rather than by knowing 
much, although knowledge and discrimination 
are necessary aids to the manifestation of 
that realization among mortals. Jesus had 
both the wisdom of love, and the discrimina¬ 
tive knowledge of human character, that en- 


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abled him to match even the deception and 
cunning of the lowest type with a wisdom 
equal and superior. 

The stress of circumstances is developing 
us. All our experiences tend to intensify our 
natures and make us more positive as indi¬ 
viduals. The negative path leads through 
painful experiences. Even the agony of 
physical pain focalizes all the forces of mind 
into a more intense unit. But the way of 
God, which Christ revealed, intensifies the 
nature through devotion to the Father. 
Through a sincere desire to know and feel 
God, there develops an intense longing for 
His Presence, which polarizes all the forces 
of the nature and directs them toward one 
end. This desire becomes the all-absorbing 
thought of the mind, and the petty, distract¬ 
ing loves of the past fall away. All the 
forces of the mind and soul become polarized 
into a white heat of intensity, which purifies 


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the nature and draws all the straggling 
thoughts and feelings into unity with the cen¬ 
tral attraction. The character becomes in¬ 
flamed with divine ardor and zeal, and within 
the flame of love and devotion, the Spirit of 
God moves and breathes, filling the character 
with a new and wonderful positiveness and 
power; a positiveness that is tender and a 
power that is meek, but withal, an invincible 
determination and purpose to make the Will 
of the Father manifest. The whole being 
becomes a living prayer of devotion. Oh, it 
is the deep prayer of the soul that touches 
the heart of Divine Love, and every thought 
of the mind and atom of the body must be 
looking to God in devoted expectancy in 
order to receive its share of the Spirit. Only 
those atoms and thoughts that have been 
schooled by devotion to look to the Father 
will receive of this transforming Spirit. 

By devotion we intensify and purify our 


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nature and lift it to the state of realization, 
and by affirmation of the truth received, we 
sound the tone of our realization in mind and 
body and make God manifest to the world. 
By devotion we develop the links that con¬ 
nect the negative side of our nature with the 
positive Spirit dwelling within the inmost re¬ 
cesses of our being. And from this unity of 
the sense mind and the intelligent mind with 
the consciousness of God within the soul, the 
transforming Spirit has free expression 
through the nature, and the power of God 
becomes more and more manifest in health 
of mind and body. 


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XI 


(gkbtfafton (ttncows ^ouf TJJtsbom 

rpHE mind is made spiritual by the study of 
spiritual thoughts. Material and spiri¬ 
tual thoughts have a distinct quality and rate 
of vibration. Spiritual thoughts are positive 
and uplifting, while material thoughts are 
negative and have little life and joy in them. 

Mortals must constantly invent new pleas¬ 
ures that they may not tire of living; for 
those whose minds are immersed in the 
world’s thought atmosphere of self-seeking, 
do not realize the joyous life that springs 
perpetually from the soul. The majority of 
persons do not know of the Rivers of Life, 
the mighty thought currents, that flow from 
the higher centers of inspiration through the 
soul life into the conscious mind. This inner 
source of satisfaction is hidden from those 


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who are absorbed in the things of the ex¬ 
ternal world. 

The study of spiritual truth is of infinite 
value to every one because it opens up a new 
realm to the mind, a realm of divine ideas, 
a realm where the ideal is positive reality, 
and where the thoughts of God are embodied 
in beings of transcendent loveliness, who live 
in the eternal light of God’s intelligent love 
where joy and harmony reign supreme. 

With each new influx of thoughts from 
this sublime region of Mind, a new vitality 
is realized and the determination is born to 
make the mind so positive and radiant with 
spiritual thoughts and feelings that there will 
be no place for the darkness and dissatis¬ 
faction so prevalent in the minds of mortals. 

There is a tendency among students of the 
wonders of spiritual truth to read too much 
and not meditate enough. This develops the 
intellect by making it a storehouse for the 


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facts and ideas evolved by other minds, but 
it does not uncover soul inspiration. This is 
evident from the fact that there are great 
intellects in the world who are veritable mines 
of spiritual wealth, as far as beautiful ideas 
are concerned, but they know very little of 
the Spirit that dwells in the soul of man. 
Each one must find for himself the spring 
of inspiration within the soul, and from this 
spring will flow living waters full of the heal¬ 
ing power from the life of God. 

If one reads too much on deep spiritual 
subjects and does not give adequate time to 
meditation upon what has been learned, con¬ 
fusion and dissatisfaction will be the result. 
No depth of mind or strength of character is 
developed by storing the mind with beautiful 
ideas unless time is given to the development 
of the Spirit of these thoughts, so that it 
becomes an inherent power for good. True 
education consists in educing or evolving 





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from within rather than memorizing what 
others have realized and evolved. 

Each mind can write volumes of wonder¬ 
ful realizations from the wisdom of God 
cradled within the soul. The soul is the joy¬ 
ous consciousness of God individualized, and 
desires to formulate what it knows of God in 
the feelings of love and thoughts of wisdom 
that it can generate in the mind and embody 
in the nature. 

In ancient India it was the custom for the 
spiritual preceptor to teach his pupil a truth 
that he had realized in his meditations, and 
then advise the pupil to go into seclusion and 
meditate upon the subject until he had 
evolved a deep knowledge of it from within 
his soul and applied it, as far as possible, in 
transforming his character. 

When he had realized one truth, another 
was given that would uncover a new soul 
realization. Thus the pupil developed har- 


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moniously, and the mind was educated to re¬ 
ceive and manifest the intuitive power of the 
soul. In this way each truth planted in the 
garden of the mind should be cultivated by 
devoted attention, watered with thought and 
vivified with love until it is ready to be trans¬ 
planted by the soul into the midst of the 
thought flowers of paradise. 

Spiritual truths should be meditated upon 
until they unlock the chambers of thought 
within the soul, when the bliss of realization 
and spiritual communion will suffuse the mind 
and fill it with the illumination of a perfect 
joy, infusing all the thoughts with new life 
and power from on high. 

The thoughts that are born in the mind by 
meditation may be called thought children. 
The soul is their Father and it will feed them 
with manna of heaven and clothe them con¬ 
tinually with new substance that they may 
grow in grace and be a delight and satisfac- 


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tion to the mind. These thoughts may be 
cultivated to such a degree that they will all 
work together as a united mental power for 
good. When they are consecrated to Jesus 
Christ they will be glorified by His Spirit and 
ever serve to build a temple for the indwell¬ 
ing of His presence. 

Every cell in the human body is the habita¬ 
tion of a thought, and the soul light is also 
diffused throughout these physical cells; but 
this intelligence of the soul can not express 
its power through them until the thoughts 
become enlightened with soul recognition. 

Let the thoughts that now fill the mind and 
inhabit the body be educated in the knowl¬ 
edge of Divine Intelligence present within 
them; let the mind meditate on thoughts of 
truth until it finds itself in the cathedral of 
the soul, and the soul will give its joyous, 
healing life to every thought and cell until 
the aggregate of thoughts and cells is spiri- 


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tualized to positive harmony. This will give 
the soul an instrument on which it may sound 
any healing tone, and through which it can 
speak forth the mighty words of its power to 
the glorification of the I AM in all beings. 


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£$e (Resurrecting (power 

T^VISCORD and disease can not live in heaven, 
because, all beings who have realized 
that state of consciousness, live in accord with 
the Divine Intelligence and are transformed 
by its gracious wisdom into a form that is 
perfect and peaceful. Mortals, living in this 
outer zone of ignorance and discord, should 
be taught to turn their desires for healing to¬ 
ward the Fountain of Eternal Life, for con¬ 
stant experience is proving that the marvelous 
Spirit of healing responds with mighty dem¬ 
onstrations to those who persistently turn 
to it for relief from pain and discord. 

What is that Mysterious Power that 
evolves so much of beauty and intelligence 
from the crude forces of nature, that finds its 
most perfect expression in the more refined 

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nature of the celestial realms and there trans¬ 
forms every mortal crudity and imperfection 
into exalted beauty, every sorrow and pain 
into joy and peace? What is that transform¬ 
ing Power that redeems, regenerates and 
transforms spirits until they perfectly express 
its goodness and wisdom, and permeates even 
this undeveloped world with so much of its 
life and organizing power that we can never 
cease wondering as we sound the depths of 
its constructive wisdom and ability shown in 
every particle of substance? Human lan¬ 
guage is inadequate to express what that all- 
embracing Power is. The simple word God 
at once names it and does not name it, for the 
majesty and goodness and glory revealed to 
the contemplative mystic on this plane and 
to the angels in heaven as the sublime Reality 
for which that little word stands, can not be 
comprehended by the intellect. But the qual¬ 
ity that is Divinity, which heals, redeems and 


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inspires, may be imparted from soul to soul 
as a ray of spiritual sunshine; as a quickening, 
moving tenderness, which vitalizes the nature 
with the very essence of Divinity. Once in 
a while we meet on this plane characters that 
live and express the purity, sweetness and 
strength of Divinity, and we feel that they 
emit a healing atmosphere, a holy aura like 
that of the angels. We are soothed and har¬ 
monized simply by their presence, for their 
souls emanate a healing influence truly an¬ 
gelic, and we are better and happier for hav¬ 
ing come in touch with them. Heaven is 
populated with such souls, and their charm is 
the Presence of Divinity, the Spirit of spirits, 
the Soul of souls, that is visible in heaven as 
a Sun of Glory, filling all the celestial abode 
with blissful, healing radiance. 

And the rays of that Divine Sun permeate 
all space and interpenetrate every substance 
as the Spirit that forever moves over the 


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“face of the deep,” awakening life and in¬ 
telligence in all substance, and in us develop¬ 
ing a spiritual nature that enables its eternal 
Consciousness to become self-conscious in in¬ 
dividualized form. Thus have we received 
from God all the life and intelligence we 
have. He, as the impersonal Spirit, has led 
us all the way, according as our limited in¬ 
telligence would allow. Now, if we will look 
to Him and recognize this mighty truth, that 
God, the mighty Former and Lover of souls, 
is at present a source of unlimited life, 
strength and intelligence in us, we shall by 
this true recognition and the faith and trust 
in Omnipotence which evolves from it, come 
more directly in touch with the healing life of 
heaven which is made manifest to all souls 
that live close to heaven’s Heart of Love. 
How shall we become attuned to the Mind 
and Heaven of God so as to be healed? By 
affirming those truths which attune the mind 


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to the quality of the Mind of God. Affirma¬ 
tion of Divine Truth is the mystic method 
that has proved powerful in healing the sick 
and resurrecting into new light and joy those 
whom bitter bereavements and cruel adversi¬ 
ties had left crusht and broken-hearted. 

Affirmation is the mighty method that stirs 
up and awakens the latent potentialities of 
Divinity within the soul and develops that 
faith in the unity of God and the soul that is 
the most powerful healing force known to 
man or angels. 

There is no limit to the healing power souls 
may exercise if they cultivate a living faith 
in the healing Spirit as ever-present and pow¬ 
erful to alleviate pain and reconstruct the 
human body subject to the perfect law of life. 

Faith in God and the soul is the vitalized 
mental force that connects the personality in 
this zone of mortality with the angelic realm 
of Divinity. We are living in a very negative 


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and discordant mental zone, while perfected 
beings live in the positive mentality of God, 
in His atmosphere, which is radiant with life 
and joy. By true affirmations we may make 
our minds more and more positive until we 
vibrate in unison with the positive life and 
joy that not only fills heaven, but interpene¬ 
trates our own atmosphere also. 

We come in contact mentally with what¬ 
ever we think of. To think of the presence 
and power of God as a merciful, healing life 
force is to come in actual mental contact with 
that presence. To continue this thought by 
study and affirmation of healing truth, will 
attune the mind to harmony with that benefi¬ 
cent power, lifting it out of the darkness and 
heaviness of mortal thinking into the bright¬ 
ness and joy that is the result of thinking 
God’s thoughts after Him. Then we receive 
of the light of heaven, and the light of heaven 
is the Robe of God. He who dwells in this 


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light is nearing perfection. If those who are 
ill will live and abide in this light, it will heal 
all their diseases and crown each life with 
Godly love. 

Thus the soul awakens from its slumber in 
the bed of mortality and realizing its divine 
perfection, it sings forth in tones of purest 
joy: 

“I am the resurrection and the life ever¬ 
lasting. 

“The dream of death has faded from my 
eyes and I will rejoice forever in the Con¬ 
sciousness of Eternal Life. 

“I am folded in the Robe of God and 
nevermore will I forget His love and peace.” 


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£$ptrifuaf (potency of £onee 

rTlHERE is a magic power in music, and mu* 
sicians should recognize the healing and 
soul-awakening powers in all musical tones 
whether produced by voice or instrument. 
The Intelligence of the Omnipresent One can 
express healing power through musical tones, 
and a recognition of this truth will enable 
this potency of tones to spring forth to meet 
the need. 

Few there be who have not had their emo¬ 
tions played upon by the spirit of music 
and felt its uplifting power, as in praise and 
devotional singing; its inspiration to action, 
as in the march and dance; or its quieting, 
soothing influence when embodying the 
deeper emotions of the soul. 

Music is the most living and potent of the 


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arts. It is alive with the Breath of Divine 
inspiration and awaits the recognition of man 
to reveal to him the magic mystery of tone. 

Every created thing has a key-note or basic 
tone, which, when sounded, will move its 
every atom into vibrant accord. The church 
windows rattle to their tone when it is 
sounded on the organ, and the strings of a 
piano vibrate in sympathy with the voice of 
a singer. Everything sympathizes with and 
responds to its own key-note, and if one would 
unlock the dormant power in anything, one 
must sound the key-note. 

Every human being is keyed to a certain 
physical tone which is the basis of all the cell 
vibrations. Every faculty of the mind sounds 
a mental tone, and the basic desire of all the 
faculties is the mind’s key-note. The spiritual 
nature is also a combination of substantial 
vibrations, whose key-note is Love, and he 
who realizes Divine Love will move and 


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awaken all souls, whether the mind and body 
are affected or not. Spiritual, mental and 
physical healing may be accomplished by the 
occult power of tones, but in order to heal, 
one must understand the potencies of tones 
on all three planes of being. 

Souls are out of harmony with God through 
the darkness of ignorance that clouds the 
world, minds are out of harmony with the 
soul’s desires or motives, and the physical 
body reflects the interior discord, with the 
result that disease and pain exist instead of 
harmony and health. To attune souls to 
Divine Love, to fill minds with the wisdom 
of love and to restore bodies to a realization 
of joyous vitality, is the work of the true 
healer; and to accomplish this divine mission 
he or she must recognize the value and power 
of the mind and soul, and understand the 
potency of words and of mental, soul, and 
audible tones which bring about these results. 


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As you learn that the tones of your voice 
or instrument are living, vibrant forms, en¬ 
dowed with the intelligence of your thought 
force, your recognition of this truth will 
strengthen their spiritual nature, adding to 
their quality, intensity and power as they 
go forth into space. 

When you produce an audible tone, it has 
a body of sound vibrations, and also a spiri¬ 
tual form of living light, colored according 
to its quality, and after the physical waves 
have become inaudible, the finer vibrations 
still live in spiritual space and travel forth 
until, by the law of attraction, they find lodg¬ 
ment in the spiritual nature of some one of 
God’s children as a quickening seed of new 
life. 

These emanations of musical tones are often 
seen by clairvoyants whose spiritual eyes are 
open, and they can follow them through the 
bright or gloomy spaces of spirit life. They 


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are seen to proceed out from the immediate 
sphere of production in the form of rays or 
flowers of every form and color, separating 
as their various qualities are attracted to souls 
in need of that quality. They carry uplifting 
light and healing love to the sick and sorrow¬ 
ing souls of mortals. 

You, who are a student of music, should 
realize the good that is being effected by the 
tones you produce. Recognize the Divine 
Intelligence in every tone and you will realize 
a new inspiration in your studies. Even the 
scales and exercises will become alive and in¬ 
teresting to you. You will enjoy the ex¬ 
pression of every detail of musical thought, 
and you will throw your whole soul into your 
art as a means of praise to the Great Emotion 
of Divine Love, which seeks to reveal its joy¬ 
ous life in all beings. 

Remember, as you play or sing, that you 
are sending out your joyous feelings and 


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brightening thoughts to an invisible multitude 
of weary, darkened, sin-sick souls, some of 
whom will feel the interior quickening of 
your tones. Some of the sorrow will be 
lifted so that the Angel of Hope can enter 
their lives and lead them into the understand¬ 
ing whence your illumined tone proceeded. 

You know that God the Good reigns in 
all the universe, and all cause for evil is dis¬ 
appearing as the truth becomes known and 
manifest. You know the truth. Sing it, 
speak it, and play it in musical tones until you 
become radiant with the joy-giving knowl¬ 
edge, until your thoughts and feelings are 
attuned to the living truth. God the Good is 
at the center of all life, reaching out through 
rays of love to uplift and comfort. His Pres¬ 
ence is here , dissolving all fear, condemna¬ 
tion, sin, disease and poverty, as His children 
become conscious, by faith, of His power. 

Intone the “glad tidings of great joy” until, 


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in the fervor of your devotion, you feel that 
the Spirit of the Lord God is upon you, and 
you have become a joyous tone of everlasting 
life and light to all your world, visible and 
invisible. , 


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tk tone 

t i the Lord Jesus Christ is the manifestation 
A to worlds of angels, spirits and mortals 
of the mighty tone of eternal Truth. He 
embodies and represents the key-note of all 
created things—Divine Love—which is the 
life, the light and the joyous harmony in 
which all beings live, move and have their 
origin. 

The glorious tone of His faith in the in¬ 
finite and absolute Good is uplifting and 
awakening praise to the divine image in His 
beloved humanity. The voice of the “many 
waters” of His thoughts speaks only in praise 
to those in the dream of evil, sin or sorrow, 
for He beholds the truth, His image and like¬ 
ness, in all, and to Him this is not “lost” in 


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the darkness of mortal thought, but stands 
in the light of eternal day. He proclaims the 
everlasting truth, that all God’s creation is 
good, and this is His redeeming and healing 
faith that overcomes the limiting beliefs and 
conditions of mortal mind. 

Learn the new song of life, which is joyful 
praise to the Divine Intelligence that is the 
life and latent consciousness of every atom of 
this created cosmos. Every thought you think 
is a living mental tone that embodies the 
intelligence of the One, but modifies its force 
toward freedom or bondage, according to 
the quality of your faith in good or evil. 
These thoughts live in the cells of your flesh, 
and whatever the tone or quality of the ag¬ 
gregate of all your thoughts, such will be the 
tone of your physical organism. Your word 
is your only burden. 

Jesus Christ does not believe in two con¬ 
flicting powers—good and evil. He does not 


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believe that sin, sickness or death are direct 
or indirect results of the operation of Divine 
Power or that they have any basis of reality 
in that Power. He realizes the mighty Real¬ 
ity, the truth of Love, and He Himself is 
that Divine Truth. His whole faith is in 
God the Good as all-present and all-powerful 
throughout the entire range of infinity. His 
faith is the tone to which you must attune 
your every thought and feeling. All is Good. 
You must cast out of your mind by denial 
every belief that limits the goodness of God, 
every condemnation of self and others, every 
thought of fear, and evil, and sin, for these 
are false tones that create pain, disease and 
inharmony in your body and affairs. Every 
thought or realization of the almighty Good, 
that is alive everywhere, is a positive tone of 
harmony and health, because it chords with 
the true key-note of Life. Awake and attune 
your mind in praise to the tone of the Christ 


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Mind. All is Good. You are a harp of a 
thousand strings, but the strings may be loose 
and out of tune. How can the Breath of the 
Spirit produce anything but discord as it 
blows through the harp of your nature! 
Tune up the negative thought strings until 
every thought is in accord with the saving, 
healing truth of infinite Good. 

Become enthusiastic in your faith in Divine 
Love. All is Good. There is only God. Re¬ 
peat these words of truth to all your thoughts 
with a joyous conviction that they will all be 
converted and made alive with the Spirit of 
Truth. It is a process that will take time, but 
the joy that you realize in knowing and 
preaching this truth to yourself and to all 
minds that are receptive to your silent 
thought, will convert even time from seem¬ 
ing dreary and monotonous into its real qual¬ 
ity as “good time.” 

You have a host of thought children gener- 


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ated from past thinking, and these arise be¬ 
fore your mind as fears, doubts, and false 
desires. They obey your will, be it good or 
evil; that is, if you expect pain, they produce 
it, because they know no better, and do as 
you think. If you believe in poverty and 
want or lack of any good substance, they use 
all their energy to cut off your supply of life 
forces, or to sever the magnetic lines which 
are drawing your money supply to you. Your 
daily study will educate and develop these 
thought children that live in your interior na¬ 
ture to a perfect understanding of the Good 
that you now understand, and they will be¬ 
come potent mental forces of faith to mani¬ 
fest your good. 

As you gradually bring all your thoughts 
into the positive realization that All is Good, 
your mental and physical tones will become 
deeper and stronger and grow more positive 
in love and harmony. This will lift you into 





THE DOORS OF LIFE 


closer unity with the holy, healing Spirit of 
the Christ, and your thoughts will become 
strong enough to receive the potency of His 
Presence. Thus you become pure in heart 
and learn to see God in everything. Your 
beliefs in an evil presence or power face the 
darkness. These beliefs must be converted to 
the truth and become so intelligent that they 
can behold the glorious face of the Good 
Father and not be overcome by the light. 

You now know how to walk in the Way 
of life and joy and peace. Continue to in¬ 
tone and embody His thoughts of divine truth 
until even your flesh becomes vibrant with 
the Tone of divine Life and your thoughts 
all sing of the eternal goodness of your God. 
Your heart will overflow with the Love of 
divine Being, and you will realize that Love 
is the only reality, the only presence, the only 
consciousness and power forever. Glory to 
the Living Truth. All is Good. 


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Sut$ v6 d (tttenfdf <fotce 


TT^aith is the most powerful mental force 
that the human mind can generate. 

Faith, founded upon the underlying prin¬ 
ciples of the Divine Mind—Love, Wisdom 
and Power—the Truth—becomes a mental 
form of these mental principles and embodies 
their supreme power. 

True faith is generated by the human brain 
through study and thought of divine prin¬ 
ciples. It is made more cohesive and intense 
by positive affirmation of the truth of these 
principles. 

Each single thought unites with every other 
thought to form a body of thought which is 
a form of faith, and after this body of thought 
has become a cohesive form, it will be quick- 


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ened by the Spirit of Truth and grow from 
the infancy of trust in the Father to the man¬ 
hood of power and execution of the Father’s 
Will. 

Every created thing is the positive vibra¬ 
tion of thought or mind, expressing through 
and controlling the negative vibrations called 
matter. And the physical tone of everything 
expresses the quality of its mind. If it is 
low in the order of evolution, it will have but 
little mental force and a very simple or¬ 
ganism. If it is of gross mental development, 
the body will be gross also. The higher the 
degree of mental development, the more com¬ 
plex and perfect the physical organism. 

Thoughts and words are creative causes. 
They can cause good or evil conditions, ac¬ 
cording to their quality. When they are 
founded on the Truth and express the mighty 
Causative power of the ever-present God 
mind, they manifest as a miraculous power 


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for good, for they can control all lesser 
causes and compel them to manifest good. 

Thus, by the word of Truth, all who have 
had the faith of God, have changed pain to 
peace, poverty to riches, sickness to health, 
and death to life. 

There is a perpetual sublimation and rare¬ 
faction of elements and forces throughout all 
nature. The lowest and most inert activities 
of nature are called matter, while the most 
intelligent and the highest evolved of all na¬ 
ture’s forces are called Mind. But these are 
all one force or power in various degrees of 
progressive development. As the highest 
evolved force is the most attenuated, it there¬ 
fore penetrates every other force in existence, 
and by its intensity becomes the predomina¬ 
ting cause of causes. The forces which have 
evolved to the sublime degree of the Mind of 
nature are the supreme cause of nature’s end¬ 
less evolutions, and by the power of their 


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Omnipresent Intelligence, they create divine 
order and harmony. 

All of manifested nature is, therefore, in¬ 
terpenetrated by a subtle spiritual force which 
is the Divine Intelligence called God. 

All who have evolved to the comprehen¬ 
sion of this Divine realm, and have appro¬ 
priated and embodied this Cause of causes to 
the degree that they are consciously master of 
all lower causes (as was Jesus, Elijah, Elisha, 
Moses, and many others), are called Gods 
and Masters, for they are the highest Power, 
the Father of Causes exprest. 


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XVI 


Supreme jjfdttlj 

Qupreme faith comes as a result of the un- 
^ folding of intuition. As we study and 
think of the deep principles of life and love, 
the intellect becomes brighter, and the heart is 
wedded to it in the fervor of its passion for 
the Truth, and from the blending of heart 
and intellect that luminous consciousness 
called intuition is born. When this divine 
faculty, symbolized by the Christ-child, is 
born into the mortal mind, then we are con¬ 
sciously joined to the Divine Mind, the Source 
of all virtue and wisdom. 

We are always in contact with this Divine 
Source, but we are not always conscious of it. 

As the faculty of intuition becomes well 
developed, the light of faith leads us toward 
shining heights of wisdom. The advance 


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light of faith makes straight the mental paths 
in the wilderness of mortal thought and il¬ 
luminates all darkness. Intuition sheds its 
bright light ahead of itself, into the mind, 
from its more rarefied degree of conscious¬ 
ness, and this light is called faith. Faith is 
the effect; intuition is the cause. It is not the 
light by which the eyes perceive material ob¬ 
jects; it is the light by means of which the 
mind sees the eternal verities. In the light 
of faith the mind sees the bounty of God in 
the midst of apparent poverty. It is the very 
“substance of things hoped for, the evidence 
of things not seen” by the mortal senses. In 
it the health and perfection of the soul are 
revealed, and by its shining, pain and disease 
are dissolved, and the body takes on the 
beauty and harmony of the soul. 

Even death yields its victory, and sorrow 
lays aside her garments of mourning as the 
light of faith reveals space inhabited by celes- 


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tial beings who have passed from the darkness 
of earth to the brightness of heaven. 

f * This is the victory 

That hath overcome the world. 

Even our faith.” 

As the billows of darkness—waves of tur¬ 
bulent mortal thought—roll over us, they are 
broken and scattered by the clear, steady light 
that shines out from our stedfast, undaunt- 
able faith. We are poised in a consciousness 
of eternal, unmovable power, and we feel that 
“This rock shall fly from its firm base as soon 
as I.” 

“ Whatsoever is born of God 
Overcometh the world.” 

This faith, which is the radiance of the 
Christ, performs the miracles of the Christ 
Presence in our mental and physical nature. 
We are born of God and God becomes mani¬ 
fest in us. Thus we attain to the highest de- 


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gree of development through the birth of 
intuition. We find the all-potent forces of 
Divinity within our souls, and God becomes 
the strength of the individuality. 

If we follow the guidance of the Divine 
Intelligence as it becomes manifest through 
intuition, we shall be led into more harmo¬ 
nious paths. With the vitalizing truth that 
springs from within the soul we can meet 
and overcome every obstacle, for we are 
united to omniscient Intelligence and om¬ 
nipresent Power. 

Jesus tried at all times to inspire His disci¬ 
ples and followers with faith. Through it 
all good can be accomplished, for it is a re¬ 
fined and positive agent of the God-power. 
Its action is positive and its evidence is in 
accordance with its Divine origin. It is the 
unfoldment of the saving power, and through 
it we gain the highest truth; for through it 
we rely on the ever-present Divine Wisdom 


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which feeds our lives constantly from an un¬ 
broken stream of intelligent power. Through 
this faith and reliance, our lives become 
founded on the Rock of Eternal Truth, and 
we live in communion with the original Source 
of life, gaining knowledge from the Fount of 
Wisdom, the Father-Mother God. 


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te ®.bt>attce Courier of 3ntutrion 

nnHE development of intuition is the high- 
est form of self-culture. The clear light 
of faith illuminating the mind is the dawn of 
intuition, as the rays of the rising sun are 
thrown on the mountain top in advance of its 
full glory. 

Intuition is the open doorway between the 
Mind, which is God, and the Mind’s external 
expression, which is man. Faith is that 
premonition of intuitive truth which makes 
itself felt before we become acquainted with 
the true character of intuition; before we 
know we have the soul of all truth within us, 
simply awaiting recognition before manifest¬ 
ing itself as the life of our life, the fountain¬ 
head of our existence, from which we draw 
all life and knowledge. 


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In the Bible, salvation is made to depend 
on faith, because faith is the connecting link 
between the interior man, which is God-mani¬ 
fest Intuition, and the exterior, which is 
man’s visible presence. It is through faith 
that we make the atonement, which is to 
come into understanding of the fact that we 
are all mind from our intuitive God 
source, clear through our physical organism, 
to and including the very bones. 

Exercise your faith by affirming your unity 
with all life and power. 

When one truth comes to you, it leaves 
the door open for the entrance of another, 
which will quickly follow from the fount of 
intuition. 

Affirm: 

All good is mine through my unity 

WITH ALL. 

I CAN HAVE HEALTH BECAUSE THE POWER 
DWELLS WITHIN ME TO COMPEL THE PER- 


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FECT ACTION, IN UNITY, OF EVERY FUNC¬ 
TION OF MY BODY. I REALIZE THAT BY UTIL¬ 
IZING MY UNLIMITED POWER, I CAN BANISH 
ALL NEGATIVE FORCES. 

I HAVE NO FEAR. 

The almighty manifested me. 

His life flows through me. 

I WILL COOPERATE WITH HIS LIFE AND 
PROVE MY ONENESS WITH HIM BY MANIFEST¬ 
ING PERFECT LIFE. 


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fteabe to (Unberetanbmg 

NDERSTANDING is not merely an intel- 



^ lectual comprehension of the truth of 
omnipresent Life, but an organic comprehen¬ 
sion, which means the blending of body and 
mind into a unit in the thought, the realiza¬ 
tion that body and mind are one living intel¬ 
ligence called mind. This comprehension 
is the atonement by which you are made 
whole. 

You begin to realize vitality the moment 
you consciously recognize the great fact that 
your physical body is organized vital mind 
substance and is now united with all the vi¬ 
tality of the universal Mind. There is noth¬ 
ing in your body or in the universe but Mind. 
To know that your physical mind and the 


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Mind of the universe are now united, is to 
know the truth that constitutes the atonement, 
the truth that saves and heals both mind and 
body. 

You now accept and hold firmly to the fol¬ 
lowing truths and from your faith there is 
born an inner feeling of the presence of di¬ 
vine life and strength. From this faith intui¬ 
tion is born, which is a Fountain of Life in 
you, and from this Fountain you can draw 
unlimited energy. Thus understanding and 
health will be the reward of your faith. 

Affirm: 

My body is vitalized mental substance. 

I am alive in the infinite Mind. 

I feel that I am one with the Spirit of Life. 

I have faith in the healing mind in my 
body. 

I must express the health of the divine Life. 

Omnipotent Life forces me to be healthy 
and perfect. 


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All beliefs in the absence of Life are dis¬ 
solved. 

I am now being restored to my perfect na¬ 
ture by my faith in the omnipresence of Life. 
All is Life. 


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XIX 


3 £toe 6j> $e of ^on of (Bob 

T7^ aith is the life of your soul and the sub- 
stance of your spiritual nature. 

Were I in any condition of poverty or dis¬ 
ease, I should hold fast to my faith in the 
Healing Christ, no matter what the appear¬ 
ances or how long the darksome way seemed. 

I have learned that there are conditions to 
be met by the Spirit in its healing ministry 
that few on the earth can understand. Pa¬ 
tience is one of the elements of success. When 
the Spirit can aline all things to the Ray of 
Power, then will its electric energy do the 
work. 

Your faith is an aid in connecting the wires, 
as it were, through which the healing power 
will flow to you. 


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There is much to hope for through faith. 
Without faith we have no spiritual wealth 
and can expect none. Therefore, face all 
appearances with undaunted faith in the 
Goodness of Omnipotence and trust God 
even through the Valley of the Shadow of 
Death, which through your faith will be 
found to be but a mortal illusion. 


“£0e $ra£er of JJaue f0e JJtcfi” 

Prayer is of little benefit unless you make 
the right conditions of mental receptivity. 
Faith and trust are necessary conditions. 
Worry hinders the Spirit’s action in us and 
for us. The right mental attitude is as neces¬ 
sary for the influx of healing force as the 
wire is necessary to the flow of electricity. 

No matter how small your faith, it can be 
increased by desire or prayer. Experiences 
will come that will increase its activity in 


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your mind. This faculty gains life and power 
as you commune with God in the silence. 

The greatest silence you can enter is the 
state of prayer and devotion in which, 
whether you are using audible or silent ex¬ 
pressions, or merely being in His Presence, 
you are inbreathing His Life and Wisdom. 

I have faith in eternal Love that gave my 
being birth. 

I have faith in the love of Christ, which re¬ 
stores my soul to power. 

I have faith in my perfect soul, which is 
all joy and strength in the consciousness of 
eternal Life. 

My spirit inspires the faith of God. 


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XX 


^edftng Cratfment for Hgou 

T N the depth of your being there is a power 
A divine that can touch the stars or fathom 
the sea, and bring to you the essence of health. 
Your soul is that power which contains the 
germs of all possibilities, and these words 
are written to arouse your faith in its healing 
ability. You are conscious of about one per 
cent of your power and intelligence. Ninety- 
nine per cent of power and intelligence exists 
in the subconscious and supraconscious states 
of mind—in your soul. You are so absorbed 
in the limited mortal intelligence that you 
have failed to realize the depths of power 
and the heights of intelligence that lie so 
close to hand. You have even doubted the 





THE DOORS OF LIFE 


existence of the immortal range of your ex¬ 
istence. 

Rest now and be still, and let me tell you 
the truth of your immortal Self, the real You. 
If you listen in the right spirit you will feel 
what many of my patients have felt while I 
was talking with them, the stirring and 
awakening of the inner soul-nature. 

Your Soul is God-born. It is power, 
and that power responds to words of faith 
and appreciation. Listen with all your soul 
and feel the awakening power. 

You are a Soul of Joy. The joy 
of birds and bees and the active life of 
all creation are but the overtones in the 
symphony of the Infinite Creator, who ra¬ 
diates new glories of wisdom and bliss each 
moment to the farthest stretches of existence. 
Your soul can feel these tones of light and 
joy and be harmonized now in accord with 
the music of the Divine Life which is health 







THE DOORS OF LIFE 

and peace. Be still and feel the peace and 
joy of the inner universe of Divine Feeling 
and your fears and worries will fade and all 
your flesh will rejoice in the realization of 
the healing Spirit of Life. 

Your Soul is a Spirit of Light. Be 
still, know this truth and let it shine. 
Its light will dissolve the darkness and 
depression of your mortal mind and inspire 
you with faith, hope, confidence and power 
to conquer; for it feels the pulsations of 
power from the Central Dynamo and knows 
the Light which is beyond the comprehension 
of the mortal consciousness. You can feel 
the surgings of this Inner Power, and as you 
feel them, you will bow in humility and adora¬ 
tion before the majesty of the Divinity en¬ 
shrined in your soul. 

If you have not felt this power of your 
inner Self, if you have not sensed the holy 
light that radiates from the Christ child, new- 


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born in the lowly mortal nature, you have 
not begun to live to immortal things. You 
will feel this new birth when the animal im¬ 
pulses in the stable of your nature are asleep. 
This new child-consciousness in you will lift 
you up and save you from your sins and heal 
you of the results of sin, for you will no 
longer identify yourself with the mortal, be¬ 
cause you will know, by spiritual conviction 
that no mind can controvert, that you are an 
immortal Self, standing in the midst of 
eternal laws and forces, which you can wield 
and direct to the accomplishment of your 
soul’s true destiny. 

Your Soul is Now Poised in Omnipo¬ 
tence. It is a magnet for power, drawing 
tc itself the wisdom, the love and the joy of 
Infinite Life. Recognize this wonderful 
power of your soul and it will clothe you with 
its benediction of light and pervade your 
flesh with healing life. Your soul is now 


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drawing physical vitality from the physical 
realm of life. It is supplying you with men¬ 
tal force and vigor from the spiritual realm 
of mind, and it is penetrating into the inmost 
states of soul substance and drawing to you 
the essence of Divinity. 

Believe in the individuality of your soul. 
Recognize its power to search what to you 
is an invisible and unknowable realm, and 
trust it to bring to you the health and wisdom 
you crave. It is a mighty organizer, work¬ 
ing most powerfully while you sleep. Have 
faith in its organizing power and expect it to 
dissolve the causes of disease from your mind 
and body, and reorganize your nature after 
the hidden pattern of Divine Perfection. 


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XXI 


^oufc$tP4ftemn<j orb* 

Our Father: 

We would covenant with Thee that in all 
our ways Thou wilt guide, direct and bless. 
May the compulsion of Love tune our hearts 
to perfectly accord with the law of good that 
all covenants may be fulfilled according to 
Thy conscious will, for only in the purity of 
Thy Majestic Presence do we realize per¬ 
fected love. 

Thou art the Only One—Jehovah God. 

T et us recognize ourselves in the power of 
such a mighty individuality that no 
power can rob us of even the least thought 
we have made manifest from the Ocean of 
Thought. The more firmly we stand by our 
individuality, the more perfectly do we co- 


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operate with God’s will in making His life 
visible. 


Faith and trust are potent forces, and es¬ 
pecially so when wedded to intelligent ac¬ 
tivity. 

You are the business partner of Omnipo¬ 
tence. Omnipotence furnishes the strength 
and you do the work. You need God’s 
strength and wisdom. God needs your ex¬ 
perience and executive power in your sphere 
of activity. 


I am one with God. 

I am one with the great life principle. 
I am one with eternal vitality. 

I am almighty energy. 

My faith makes me whole. 

I abide in the Divine Mind. 

I live in the tone of the Infinite One. 


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Every part of my body vibrates to the 
music of the spheres. 

I am the spoken Word of almighty power. 

God created me, gave me His life and 
made me one with Him. I now claim His 
strength and power. 

I recognize the strength in the holy, potent 
Presence of Jesus Christ, and I claim this 
power to strengthen my body. 

I am the life that flows from God. 

My mind yields strength to every organ of 
my body. 


Think and talk about the grace of God, the 
beauty of holiness, and your mind will be 
carried high up into the mountain of truth. 

How beautiful it is to be alive, alive with 
the life of God, and in the knowledge that 
we are cared for by the Good Shepherd. 
Glory to the Exalted One. 


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XXII 


We (pratee (Bob for fetfe 

IFE is nothing less than the individual un« 



foldment of the Mind of God, or the 
intelligence of God made manifest or visible 
in individuals. Marred and blemished as in 
our ignorance life seems to us, yet a fuller 
understanding of it will show us that it is 
our never-ending glory, most inestimable 


boon. 


I have never valued life as I do now when 
I see how accessible Divine Intelligence is 
and how it may be realized and lived until 
the very remembrance of our previous ig¬ 
norant beliefs in sin, sickness, poverty and 
death will have vanished from our minds. 
Divine Intelligence is ours with which to 
cleanse, enlighten, purify and beautify our- 


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selves, all through our effort to overcome un¬ 
belief and false beliefs, first by denial, and 
then appropriating Good by affirmation. And 
this effect is not merely to manifest itself in 
our internal lives, but in our external lives 
also; for body and mind are one. Know¬ 
ing that fact, we declare that the improve¬ 
ment of the mind guarantees the improvement 
of the body. 

You are now in the conscious recognition 
that as you are all Mind, there is nothing 
mortal or perishable about you. As you un¬ 
derstand this you will shed the exhausted or 
devitalized atoms that you no longer need, 
leaving the deadness of old conditions as you 
partake of the vitality of the new conditions 
unfolding in your life. 

I Praise Thee, O God, for my Phys¬ 
ical Vitality, which Flows Into my 
Body Constantly from Thy Omnipres¬ 
ent Life. 


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I Praise Thee for the Awakening of 
Faith, which Leads Me to the Foun¬ 
tain of Immortal Life. 

I Praise Thee for the Knowledge of 
Endless Possibilities Open to my At¬ 
tainment. 

Thou art the Inspiration of my 
Faith, Leading me in Ways of Unend¬ 
ing Life and Joy. 


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XXIII 


of J=$frengf0 QSuifb ^Sfrengffl 
from W^rn 


ou can develop soul strength in your own 



A interior by affirmative prayer. Your 
soul is divine because it is one with the in¬ 
finite Spirit. If you will cultivate your spiri¬ 
tual nature and allow the soul sense to be 
opened, the divine Light will illumine your 
soul and through this Light the soul can re¬ 
veal its wisdom and strength to you. In 
these luminous moments when the spiritual 
sense is receiving from the soul, you will real¬ 
ize that this transcends all physical sense and 
lifts the mind above the limitations of the in¬ 
tellect. In so far as you are able to rise above 
the physical sense and intellect, you will 


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realize the close relation between your life 
and infinite Life. Then you will see the 
necessity of keeping yourself in such close 
rapport with it that its Light Divine can not 
be hidden. The ideal of attainment is 
reached when the Voice of God is never 
hushed by the turmoil of the earth plane. As 
you listen to and follow its guidance, it will 
draw so near that you will feel the powerful 
illumination of the Father’s Wisdom'. As 
you realize and live in this divine state, you 
will feel constantly the heavenly Presence. 
Then you draw strength from within as well 
as from nature. You must have absolute con¬ 
fidence in the Divine Power. Through your 
trust and faith you can attain to mastery. 
Never let your hope, faith or courage fail 
even should you not seem to attract all you 
desire. Be patient and faithful, for hope 
and courage are the parents of health, 
strength and success. 


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I pray Thee, O Masterful Presence, touch 
my faith with the vigor of Thy Mighty Mind 
that my strength may be increased and I may 
express the full vigor of my soul. Help me 
to incorporate Thy strength in this physical 
temple. Attune my mind to the realm of 
courage, faith and joy that I may show forth 
Thy goodness and power in health of body 
and constant peace of mind. 


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XXIV 


dnb T2ou £0*ff QRecetbe” 


ultivate your faith and give the divine 



influx an opportunity to work. Through 
your desire and invitation, the divine influx 
will enter your nature and give vital force of 
wondrous power in healing. The more fully 
the mind is opened toward God in perfect 
faith and devotion, the greater is the realiza¬ 
tion of healing. This is the case where heal¬ 
ing is instantaneous, for by the intensity of 
faith all elements of mind and time are over¬ 
come. I know of a case where a cancer was 
eliminated from the body by the great devo¬ 
tion and faith of a simple-minded woman 
who lived in a state of constant trust and ex¬ 
pectancy until the growth gradually disap¬ 
peared. There must be no wavering in the 


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belief in the presence of the healing power. 
Through constant practise of affirmative 
prayer, the mind will be polarized to a holy, 
calm desire, an intense, expectant attitude, un¬ 
disturbed by material thoughts. 

This attitude of mind invites and attracts. 
The wondrous healing power flows through 
this open channel. Such devotees live for the 
time being in their invisible thought world, 
praying, hoping and expecting that the holy 
healing prayer will actualize in their bodies, 
and in many instances the heart of God is 
touched, the vacuum in their bodies is filled 
from the unbounded flow of the universal life 
essence that enters the soul with the magical 
thrill of its wholeness and perfection. 

Use the following affirmative prayer: 

Mighty Spirit! In Thy strength I am 
strong. In Thy healing atmosphere I am 
realizing health. From Thy vital Spirit flows 
the vigor that my body needs. 


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I rejoice in Thy strength. 

I am filled with Thy unlimited energy. I 
have faith now in the change that Thy Spirit 
is bringing about in my character and its ex¬ 
ternal form. 

Thy perfection is the pattern that molds 
my nature and satisfies my desire. 

I am satisfied as I awake in Thy likeness of 
health and strength. 


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XXV 


@U a (tttan QSefteoes 3^ 

rpHE body is obedient to thought. The 
cells of the body can only obey the men¬ 
tal forces that form them. They have their 
present form because they express that men¬ 
tal type. Every natural form in the universe 
expresses its mental character. A ferocious 
nature always looks ferocious, whether it ap¬ 
pears in animal or human form. The heart 
beats in accord with the feelings, and the 
lungs breathe in sympathy with the thought, 
and the chemicals formed by the organs are 
healthy or poisonous, according to the state 
of mental activity. As you are all mind, your 
beliefs and mental states are real conditions 
which cause and cure disease. Your beliefs 
about the awfulness of sin, the power of sick- 


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ness, the hopelessness of death, the certainty 
of poverty, and all other depressing thoughts, 
are the mental conditions that depress the 
physical functions and produce disease. These 
beliefs must be changed by the knowledge of 
the omnipresence of Good if your body is to 
show forth the vitality of a healthy mind. 
Change your mind and your body will change, 
because it can only express what you think 
and feel. 

You are in Reality One with God. 
You are one with His bountiful life which 
can heal every physical condition. You are 
one with His eternal Life and your mind will 
never die. Through faith in His bounty all 
good can come to you. Believe that you are 
one with His pure, free Mind and be saved 
from the hell that your false beliefs have 
made for you—the only hell there is. Salva¬ 
tion is by faith. Faith in what? The truth 
that only Good exists as a permanent reality, 


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that there is only One Mind in and all about 
you. All will eventually be saved from the 
hell of this world’s crude beliefs through 
recognizing the truth that all souls are one in 
the universal Mind of God. 


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XXVI 


TJJIfai Suf$ (promtceB (Bob (perforntB 

ril his is true because faith is an actual con- 
A necting link between God and man. We 
walk by faith until we reach understanding 
and then we know that Life is omnipresent 
because we feel its power and health perva¬ 
ding our being. We know we can not be 
separated from divine Life. We have scaled 
another height, and we stand on the summit 
of another mountain range of thought, 
higher and happier than we have ever been 
before. 

The truth uplifts the mind. There is no 
greater joy than that from the birth of a new 
truth in our organization. After you have 
realized the truth of omnipresent Life, you 


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will be ready to investigate other truths in 
which faith will again illuminate your way, 
for faith in the possibility of your attainments 
will never die. All through the great forever 
faith will be your prophet and guide. It 
leads your mind constantly in the direction of 
understanding. Understanding will never 
finish her perfect work. To be at once and 
forever in the understanding of all truth 
would be to be as God in the entirety of the 
infinite Mind. We are individualized forms 
of knowledge. We are limited by our in¬ 
dividual beliefs. We are passengers through 
the wonderful universe of Wisdom, traveling 
as fast as our beliefs expand through recog¬ 
nition of truth. And it is in this constant ex¬ 
pansion of mind that we shall find our heaven. 
“Heaven is within.” Heaven is the unfold- 
ment of our faculties to the perception of new 
truth. As we perceive new truth, we make it 
manifest; thus externalizing Wisdom and 


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forming heaven about us as we progress in 
our unfoldment. 

Affirm: 

As my body shows forth in form and tex¬ 
ture the quality and state of my mind, I can 
change my body by changing my mind. 

I dissolve the mental appearances called 
disease and pain. 

I recognize the present purity and perfec¬ 
tion of my soul nature and by faith and love 
I will show the perfect quality of spirit in 
physical form. 

All changing power is in my recognition of 
the Divine Presence within. 

I recognize and feel that I am now a per¬ 
fect soul of love and wisdom. 


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XXVII 


“£0e (gtorfaf (Jtlucf (put on 3wmor; 
Mix" 

T AM continually receiving letters from those 
A who mourn because their friends have jour¬ 
neyed into the realm invisible. This is the 
great journey that all must take, and we 
should not feel any more disturbance over it 
if we trusted God than we do when our 
friends make a journey of a thousand miles 
on the earth plane. It is true, they can not 
return to us in their physical bodies, but all 
spirits will meet in a little while in that land 
where there are no partings. 

We should not expect our friends to mani¬ 
fest to us in spirit immediately after their en¬ 
trance into the new life, because they need to 
rest and prepare for work in that wider realm 
of spiritual endeavor. They must learn the 


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conditions of life in the new land, and when 
they become strong, they can use the spiritual 
power of thought to help us overcome phys¬ 
ical conditions. When they first pass out, we 
can help their spirits to gain strength by hold¬ 
ing affirmations of strength for them just as 
if they were still in the body. They are as 
close to us in the universal Mind as ever, and 
our minds can commune and give and receive 
blessings through the far-reaching power of 
thought. There can not be any loss, because 
our minds will always be united, and as we 
go forward in this faith, we shall often feel 
the strengthening thought and encouraging 
presence of our beloved. 

I can feel only soul joy over the release of 
a spirit from disabling physical conditions. I 
have seen the power of the Spirit exercised in 
behalf of those passing through a trying 
period of loss, so that they were astonished 
at the way their minds were held in Divine 


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Peace, above the waves of mortal sorrow. 
They had a vivid consciousness of the truth 
that all is well because their beloved were 
still in the arms of eternal Love. 

There is no awful journey past the portals 
of death. We do not die. I know we do 
not die. I have realized that death is but as 
a sleep and an awakening. We merely wake 
up to a larger consciousness, as the child at 
birth wakes up to a greater expression of life. 
We are merely reborn into a new world, cir¬ 
cumstances and people. There are no terrors 
and temptations waiting to destroy the soul. 

Jesus did not seem sad at the idea of death. 
He spoke over and over again of His great 
joy. Look up the passages in which He re¬ 
ferred to His joy. 

There is no sorrow in the realm in which 
He now exists, and He sends His baptism of 
joy to souls incarnate. 


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XXVIII 

“3 tffc Q?t«e; T>e $re t0e QSrancffcB” 

fTlHE vine has many verdant branches reach- 
A ing out into the atmosphere. The vine 
is pouring its life and sap into the branches 
and they are budding forth in leafy beauty 
and bearing fruit. Thus, the true disciple is 
incorporated with Christ; the union with 
Christ is both vital and organic. We are 
connected with the Fountain Head that flows 
forth to all members of the body. In this 
mystical union we are in fellowship with God. 
He is the source of our life, beauty and fruit¬ 
fulness. The true and living branches that 
spring from this vine are very beautiful in 
their verdant life and vigorous growth. You 


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will find with them a shaded place in which 
to rest your tired mentality. 

The object of our union with the parent 
stem is fruitfulness. We must not only put 
forth leafage and blossom, but also bear fruit 
in abundance. 

His eternal life throbs in our souls. We 
are growing the fruit to glorify the divine 
Husbandman and feed the life of humanity. 

Do we speak the earnest, loving words that 
will lead souls from the path of error? Do 
we endeavor to sweeten the cup which con¬ 
tains the bitter gall? Do we apply the heal¬ 
ing balm to the wounded spirit? As living 
branches of the true vine, we must produce 
the cooling, refreshing fruit for the parched 
lips of God’s children. 

Without Christ we can do nothing. Apart 
from Him we are without spiritual life or 
power. But one with Him, drawing from 
Him the substance on which our spirits feed, 


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we find in Him the power we need for a fruit¬ 
ful spiritual life. His words are the guiding 
star of our lives. We abide in Him. He is 
our spiritual energy, the source of our life, 
the secret of our strength, the fount of per¬ 
petual joy. The resources of the true Vine 
are inexhaustible and free to all who will 
draw upon Him. 

There are those who bear little fruit, and 
the fruit is not perfect. Why is this? It is 
because they do not abide in the heavenly 
Vine. They do not live in close communion 
with the Master. Come in touch with the 
vitalizing spirit of the Master that you may 
live in unbroken fellowship with Him, and 
draw from the store of His life and grace. 
Strive to embody His truth in your life and 
conduct, thus becoming an exemplar of His 
Divine Life. Determine to live in such close 
correspondence with Him that your soul will 
realize the Divine companionship. Love one, 


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love all, as He did, thus fulfilling the law of 
spiritual unfoldment. 

** Herein is my Father glorified. 

That ye bear much fruit; 

And so shall ye be my disciples/* 

John xv., 8 


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XXIX 


©ttmte f&ot>e te t0e £tfe of f$e ^ouf 

T) ROAD and high as the heavens above is 
the infinite truth. 

The harvest of thought garnered from the 
Infinite Mind enriches the soul with true 
knowledge, peace and loveliness. 

Man’s body is his history, and his history 
will become fully illuminated and illustrated 
if he will seek and appropriate the pure Christ 
truth that is full of mercy and rich in good 
fruits. 

Man is so filled with the thought of self 
and its ends that he does not realize his true 
and eternal interests. When he comprehends 
that there is but one law in the universe and 
that law is the Love of God, that this law is 


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changeless and can only be fulfilled by gener¬ 
ous feelings and actions, then he will under¬ 
stand the true import and object of his own 
being. In the consciousness of Divine Love 
he will find peace, health and satisfaction. 

“Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the 
chords with might; 

Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass’d in 
music out of sight. * * 

Peace comes to the heart as the soul listens 
to the entrancing music of Infinite Love. 
When the soul soars above the passions and 
unrest of mortal life, when it is uplifted and 
wings its way beyond external distractions, it 
feels the permeating, brightening rays that 
emanate from the Holy Center of Divinity. 

The soul draws nearer to the Love of God 
which shall be with it for all time, forever on 
and on through endless pathways of heavenly 
glory. This Love is the Divine Flame that 


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abides in the soul and fills it with radiance 
celestial. Heaven can afford no greater hap¬ 
piness than this, for when the soul and mind 
are at rest, in communion, then is sensed the 
inspiring and satisfying life of God. 


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XXX 


“JE)e ^enf £0em Sotffl fo (preach $e 
(Ktngbom of (Bob, anb fo f f$e ^tcfe" 

T have called the attention of thousands of 
“*• clergymen, through letters and booklets, 
to the fact that Christ gave His disciples the 
work of healing to do as well as that of 
preaching. 

I am satisfied that seed has been sown 
which in time will lead to a positive revival 
in the orthodox world of that living faith 
through which the Christ and His angels of 
mercy can heal humanity in both body and 
mind. 

The conditions of Pentecost must be ful¬ 
filled if there is to be mighty healing done. 
This is demonstrated in the mighty cures 
wrought at various shrines. The deep and 


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sincere devotions of a number of needy souls 
continued for a period of nine days or more, 
result in miraculous organic changes, which 
have carried conviction of their reality to the 
most skeptical members of the medical pro¬ 
fession who have investigated the cures. In 
answer to the fervent prayers of His chil¬ 
dren, the mighty Spirit of Love touches those 
afflicted with crippled limbs, deaf ears and 
sightless eyes, tumorous and cancerous condi¬ 
tions, and makes them whole and clean. An 
expectant and devotional faith is necessary 
that the Spirit may bring forth these mighty 
results, and this faith can be best aroused and 
the true conditions for healing fulfilled where 
two or more are gathered together in the 
name of the Great Physician. 

To every clergyman I would say: You can 
form a healing group in your church where a 
few devoted souls can meet to wait on the 
Lord for the influx of healing life that is 


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certain to come in response to your expectant 
faith. Thus you can gain the cooperation of 
the Spirit in addition to the material means 
used to heal your friends. 

There are many in your parish who would 
be drawn to you because of your faith and 
the demonstrations that would come as a re¬ 
sult of such faith, and you would find your 
influence for good extended and strengthened. 
Is it not the duty of the servant of Christ to 
fulfil His words and make the conditions for 
the healing of the sins, sorrows, pains and 
diseases of humanity which present day 
demonstrations prove can be done ? 


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XXXI 


(Jttebtfafton on CottsfrucfteeneBs 

T have a faculty whose development will 
A make me skilful in writing, drawing, 
building and inventing. It gives me ingenuity 
and manual skill and dexterity, and is the 
basis for mechanical genius when related to 
machinery. I will cultivate this talent for 
making things, not only because of its practi¬ 
cal utility, but because, when active, it unites 
with other faculties to give a constructive 
mind. Exercising this constructive instinct in¬ 
creases both physical and mental activity, and 
enables me to understand better the mechan¬ 
ical laws of the Infinite Mechanist shown in 
all His creations. I will exercise this con¬ 
structive talent in building my thoughts into a 


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more perfect character and thus fulfil the 
work of the Divine Architect. 

I recognize the constructive principle work¬ 
ing in my nature as the builder of a perfectly 
healthy body. 

It is adjusting all parts to represent the 
perfection of divine order. 

This constructive principle is my individual 
spirit, which is learning wisdom from the In¬ 
finite Constructor of the universe. 

I have faith in the constructive power of 
my spirit. I am a constructive spirit, build¬ 
ing a mind and body in the beauty, strength 
and wisdom of the Divine Image. 

The self-perfecting faculties of my mind 
are growing in power and influence because I 
desire to elevate and chasten the animal func¬ 
tions and faculties. 

I aspire after the highest state of feeling, 
character and conduct, and discard the im¬ 
perfect and sensual in all its forms. 


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I am linking the intellectual and animal 
faculties to the moral degrees of my mind so 
that the influx of Divine Light may pervade 
and exalt every department of my complex 
mind. 


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XXXII 


“l&wtfte, C^ou tfyxt upcet, <tnb €0rof 
gtott gftnc (Upon £0ee” 

fT^HE miraculous cures manifest at the shrine 
of St. Anne de Beaupre in Canada, at 
Lourdes in France, and many other places, 
attest the power of Divine Love to heal what 
are apparently incurable afflictions, when cer¬ 
tain well-defined conditions are fulfilled. 
These conditions are fulfilled where there are 
a number of minds united in one place with 
eye single to the healing Spirit, as with the 
disciples in the upper room at Pentecost. 

Crippled humanity gather at modern 
shrines with all their thoughts focused on the 
idea of attaining health. Their minds are 
single to the healing power. Then in the 
most intense state of devotion they pray for 


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days for the healing blessing. Their desires 
stream forth to reach the Heart of Love and 
God’s angels travel to earth attracted by 
their needs, and impelled from within by the 
Spirit of Mercy, to bring the healing life and 
substance of Elohim in answer to their 
prayers. 

We do not see these manifestations of the 
Divine in the ordinary church service or at 
prayer meetings as they are at present con¬ 
ducted, because Christians do not expect the 
fulfilment of the promises of Christ; there 
is a lack of the faith and devotion, which are 
the necessary links of connection between the 
human and Divine natures. 

But the number who accept Christ’s prom¬ 
ises of healing in a literal sense is constantly 
increasing. As they can not find consolation 
and spiritual encouragement in their churches, 
they are seeking new places of worship and 
new ministers, and consequently the orthodox 


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churches are losing those who have the most 
faith in the Presence and Power of Jesus 
Christ. 

Through the awakening of spiritual under¬ 
standing, every prayer-meeting in the world 
and every church service could become a cen¬ 
ter of healing power that would awaken the 
interest of materially-minded persons to spiri¬ 
tual truth and create a revolution in the health 
and morals of humanity. 

Let us decree that all the ministers of 
Christ shall awaken to the Truth and preach 
the glad tidings of great joy which bring sur¬ 
cease of pain and spiritual health to God’s 
beloved. 


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t%e Great (Reaftfg 

A s you awaken to the Truth, which is the 
great Reality hidden in all things—the 
mighty Power vested in your own individual¬ 
ity—you will recognize that you have passed 
through the mirage of ignorance which was 
unreal from beginning to end. You will no 
longer be bound by the belief that disease is 
greater than the healing power in your own 
nature. The great possibilities of the God- 
nature in you and around you will be revealed 
to you, and you will feel that you are a soul 
of unlimited power. 

Your beliefs, which are the beliefs of the 
race, and the limited state of humanity, have 
hypnotized you into the feeling of being 
bound when you are free, like the elephant 


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that from habit continues to stand in the 
place where formerly he was chained. You 
have not tried to overcome because you had 
no incentive to action in the form of knowl¬ 
edge of your inherent power. Now you be¬ 
gin to see the Light of true knowledge, and 
you begin to demonstrate your power over 
your flesh and fortune. In this Light, you 
see that God includes not only all possibility, 
but also all organizations of life; for in¬ 
dividuality is a state or form of His Essence. 
Thus you see that God is at once both unin¬ 
dividualized and unlimited in the possibilities 
of His Essence, and individualized in forms 
according to the degree of development of 
each. Now you begin to feel the reality of 
the God power; you feel the omnipotent 
necessity of God’s nature which compels Him 
to express you and grow in you toward per¬ 
fection. You feel faith in this invincible 
necessity of God’s nature, which does not ask 


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you whether or not you will express Him, but 
forces you to live His Being, because there is 
no other Being for you to live. Your nature 
has tried to wrong itself and others by false 
thoughts and activities, thus hiding from your 
consciousness the glory of the Reality of 
Purity and Perfection that lives undiscour¬ 
aged and undaunted at the center of your life. 
You now know with the full assurance of a 
child of God that: 

God is All. He is Mine and I am His. 

You will not let this mighty truth fade 
from your consciousness: 

There is no Separateness. We are 
One in the Allness of His Being. 


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“3 tt>c mg, ttruth ctnb t$e fetf i" 


ne of the beautiful paintings of Hoffman 



depicts a family seated about a table, 
listening to the reading of spiritual truth, 
while poised in the air is the glorified spirit 
of Jesus Christ, the whole conception embody¬ 
ing the words of Jesus: 

“ Where two or three are gathered together in my name. 

There am I in the midst of them.” 

A clear image of Christ, the manifestation 
of Divine Perfection in spiritual human form, 
is of great power in enabling the healer to 
hold before the mind of a patient the true 
idea of health. 

This Science teaches that Truth saves and 
heals from sin, pain, sorrow and want. We 


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can not conceive of Truth in the absolute and 
formless state, even tho we know it is the 
principle of every living thing. We have 
learned that Truth is the life and power in 
our bodies that heals and intelligently works 
to produce perfect conditions; but we need a 
picture of physical, moral and soul perfection. 
We need to have a clear picture in mind of 
God’s Image of perfection which He has 
sown in our interior spiritual nature. In 
Jesus Christ as he now stands glorified in the 
immortal state, we see the form of absolute 
Truth in all its vital and moral strength and 
celestial beauty. We see our own Self de¬ 
veloped into perfect expression. We feel 
that His love and power are the reality of 
our souls, and through this image we lay hold 
of the PRESENT POWER OF TRUTH in US, 
which is able to dissolve the limitations of 
mortal mind and lift us to opulence, health 
and peace. 


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Realize that the Perfect Presence of Jesus 
Christ is the purity, power and prosperity of 
your life as you hold these affirmations: 

Jesus Christ Represents the True 
Being of my Soul. He is the Life that 
Glows with Celestial Light in my In¬ 
ner Nature. 

Jesus Christ is the Power that is now 
Healing Me and Supplying all my 
Needs. 

Everything is Being Dissolved but 
this Masterful Presence of Life and 
Health and Immortal Joy. 

Christ is All and in All, Now and 
Forever. 


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fetfe 3e Omnipotent 

OUR soul has been yearning and stretch- 



A ing forth its spiritual hands to find God, 
and now it has touched the hem of His gar¬ 
ment of love and power. You feel that your 
soul is filled with the Light, and as you study 
the Truth, your mortal understanding grows 
clearer and you know that this Truth was 
meant to come to you while you were in the 
body, that its power might be organized into 
your personality. 

The Light of Truth has lifted your con¬ 
sciousness into the positive realm of Life. 
Your nature is like a dynamo that exists to 
generate life and make the unlimited possibil¬ 
ities of God’s life visible. You are saturated 
with life and every organ in your body is in- 


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telligently performing its part in the great 
work of evolving life. 

Your mind is illuminated by the perception 
of the Mighty Essence of Life that invigorates 
existence with the joy of living. You speak 
forth words of life that vibrate with healing 
power. Your body can show forth nothing 
but perfect life because your false beliefs are 
fading, and you know that in the whole vast 
universe there is nothing to render to the 
vision of mankind but the Law of Life. 
Your being springs from God, who is 
the Fountain of Love and eternal Life. 
Your soul can never die or in any way become 
extinct, because God is its life. It is an ex¬ 
pression of the Living God and was sent 
forth on a mission of endless life. Your soul 
is a constantly growing and expanding Germ 
of Divine origin. It lives its way through the 
mighty universe, and no mistakes of the body 
can interfere with its existence. Even the 


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errors and false beliefs in which it becomes 
involved in its earthly journey are, in the end, 
a forcible impetus propelling it forward in 
the way of life. Death comes to the body 
and not to the soul. 

Nothing can quench, and no belief of the 
mortal world can change the Law, which is 
everlasting and unlimited Life. The world’s 
beliefs of loss, disease, and death have beaten 
their illusive strength against the Law of Life 
for ages, but the Mighty Truth has uncovered 
the Reality, and we see that Eternal Life 
stands serene and untouched as the unchan¬ 
ging reality that fades not away forever. 

You are now divinely blest with the real¬ 
ization of Eternal Life. 


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XXXVI 


" yfye ^cttf *Worb dttb J^edfeb £0em ” 

rilHE following simple method of treating 
absent friends will greatly aid the mind 
in its concentration. 

Write the full name of your patient on a 
card or slip of paper, then repeat the name 
aloud seven times or make a vivid picture of 
the name so that you can see it clearly when 
the eyes are closed. Place the paper or slip 
between your palms and bless it or the person 
through it. You can bless the name with 
healing love or joy, or whatever quality you 
desire to impart to the patient, and very likely 
you will feel the healing currents flowing 
through your hands and gathering about the 
paper. If the mind wanders from its concen¬ 
tration, look at the name again or write the 


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thought you are holding upon the card, and 
then close your eyes and focus upon the 
thought in relation to the name. Do not 
doubt but that the person treated will receive 
the blessing. The thought you are directing 
to that name is intelligent, and it will seek 
out the person and abide with that one as a 
vital power for good. I treat letters in that 
manner before mailing them, and patients 
whose nerves are sensitive to such vibrations, 
feel the powerful vibrations that they carry. 

It is not necessary to have the one being 
treated receptive to the blessing at the time it 
is given. The intelligent power that is gen¬ 
erated by the treatment will abide with the 
one to whom it is sent, and just as soon as 
the conditions allow, it will manifest in that 
one’s life. 

As you desire to impart healing life, you 
must feel life pulsating through your being. 
Words of love will not awaken love in the 


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recipient unless you feel love. Your words 
and thoughts must be filled with a soul of 
feeling that they may awaken vital feelings in 
another. Generate positive thoughts and 
strong feelings in the harmony of Divine Love 
and send them forth to bless your friends in 
need. 


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XXXVII 

buffering Cem; <5ob’e 3e 

(peace! 

rpHE above decree should be declared au- 
A dibly and silently whenever it enters the 
mind. 

The silent mental atmosphere about us 
awaits our word and begins to vibrate when 
we speak forth our decree of what we con¬ 
ceive from the Will of God. 

“In the beginning was the Logos.” The 
Logos, or Word, is the creative power, and 
it is active through the soul of man. The 
soul, as it becomes perfect in expression, vi¬ 
brates in unison with the tone or character of 
God and this tone is the sound or voice of 
God which has creative power in decreeing 
the will of God. 


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“When a will modifies the world, there is 
Logos speaking.” 

The inner soul tone or Word of God finds 
expression through thought vibrations, and 
then through sound vibrations into the phys¬ 
ical realm. Each mind is sustaining a tone 
quality every moment, and its influence on 
the universal Mind is destructive or construc¬ 
tive as the character is peaceful and harmo¬ 
nious or disturbed and passionate. The vi¬ 
bratory tone of thought is qualified and made 
powerful, as the tone of the soul finds ex¬ 
pression through the thought atmosphere. 
The real occult power of thought is derived 
from the power of Divinity that the soul in¬ 
tones. God actually spoke words of power 
through the lips of Jesus, because that nature 
intoned the quality and power of God, and 
so sustained that Divine Tone that an in¬ 
delible impression was made on the mind of 
the world. 


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The vibrations of your character, and the 
words that you utter, have power to change 
things. They set up vibrations in the mental 
realm that affect minds and inspire new modes 
of action. Have faith in your words, and 
speak no words that you do not want to see 
as living things in your life. As the majority 
of humanity are moved by whatever impulses 
happen to enter their subconscious nature, we 
will make decrees that shall enter their minds 
with positive power and move them to good. 
When we see that a thing ought to be done, 
we will decree that it shall be done, and our 
words will grow in power and in the fruitage 
of good thoughts they will be fulfilled. Thus 
we shall silently right many wrongs and in¬ 
spire many good deeds and protect many from 
evil as we become established in the conscious 
exercise of our soul power as the Word of 
God. 


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XXXVIII 


<$orm QBeauftfuf (pictures for imitation 

rpHE faculty of imitation is inherent in all 
organized nature. I have seen a staid 
old cow kick up her heels and prance around 
a pasture in imitation of a colt that was en¬ 
joying a frolicsome freedom. She was il¬ 
lustrating the rule that like awakens like. 

Boys will leap from a shed, clinging to an 
umbrella handle or practise on the tight-rope 
for some time after the circus has been to 
town. They will also practise what they con¬ 
sider the manly art of smoking in imitation 
of their seniors. They fearlessly enter many 
untried avenues of experience because they 
have seen pictures or personalities that 
touched their faculty of imitation. The sen- 


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sational word-pictures of crime contained in 
the daily papers are strong suggestions to 
minds groping for excitement or experience, 
and the many imitations of peculiar suicides, 
bold hold-ups and crimes against women, 
prove that the faculty of imitation is an im¬ 
portant element in the debasement or uplift- 
ment of humanity. Strong and perfect ideals 
should be placed before children, and their 
reading should be selected to stimulate their 
imitativeness in the direction of all that is 
noble and pure while they are young, because, 
soon the world will find entrance to their 
minds with its false pictures; but if they have 
been reared to see the true and have been 
shown what the effect of these false pictures 
will be on their minds, they will shun the 
false and choose that which will help them 
to fulfil their high ideals. The vivid pictures 
that a strong-souled father or a gentle-souled 
mother makes on a child can never be eradi- 


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cated, and will always be an incentive to noble 
living. 

The advertisements of patent medicines 
have acted on many minds like a contagion. 
They should be shunned because they suggest 
feelings and thought images that cloud the 
mind with the fantoms of disease and death. 

Let us guard our minds and the minds of 
children against all pictures of crime and 
moral and physical disease that they may not 
be debauched and the pure images of truth 
destroyed by the miasma of ignorance. Let 
us follow Paul’s advice and think on those 
things that picture the possibilities of the 
mind in its divine progression. 


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XXXIX 


CtMtiu £0ou<$f (picfuree 

\ MONG the records of mental healing may 
be found cases where the picture of 
health in the dream state has resulted in the 
restoration of health to paralyzed limbs and 
diseased flesh. The creative power that works 
through mental imagery can recombine the 
cells of the body to produce perfect structure. 
There is a record of a man dreaming of lying 
in the hot sun and waking to find his flesh 
sunburned. 

Direct the creative power of your mind in 
making a body of health for yourself by 
forming an image of a perfect body. Exer¬ 
cise your imagination while you are resting in 
picturing yourself as already being and en¬ 
joying the perfection of body and mind you 
wish to have and enjoy. 


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If you are lying in bed from weakness or 
ill health, imagine yourself going about your 
work in the joyous realization of health and 
vigor. Do not hold pictures of false growths 
or deformity or diseased conditions, because 
such thought-pictures seek expression in the 
physical body. In ancient Greece beautiful 
statues of the human form were placed in 
view of the people with the result that these 
ideals took form in a more graceful type of 
human body. A sculptor or architect who 
studied unsymmetrical and imperfect forms 
could not gain any great ability to express 
perfection, and in like manner the architect 
and sculptor of the physical nature must not 
brood on images of imperfection if he desires 
to make a perfect body. 

Create vivid pictures of the physical, men¬ 
tal and soul perfection of your personality. 
Picture yourself as doing whatever you want 
to do. The oftener you go over the details 


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of the mental pictures and dwell with pleasure 
on the possibilities of your own perfect ex¬ 
pression, the sooner will your faith and force 
come forth into the form of your ideal. 

If your environment is confining to your 
spirit and there is no door open to freedom, 
then go forth in imagination beside the still 
waters and across the sunlit pastures, or climb 
the mountain heights with congenial friends, 
and your spirit will be refreshed and bring 
back new power to the jaded body. These 
mental journeys are not purely imaginary, for 
the spirit often gains a certain freedom from 
the body and inbreathes the healing airs of 
’ mental realm and is restored to newness 
of life in the enjoyment of a subjective vaca¬ 
tion. 


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XL 


“^fanb ditb Jfce ffle of 

ffe feorb” 

rriHE great influx of spiritual truth into the 
* mind of the world is causing a struggle 
between truth and error, a reformation in its 
thoughts and affairs. It is passing through 
the travail of rebirth, and during the next 
fifty to one hundred years all things will be 
made new. After the spiritual fire has 
cleansed the planet, the dire moral and phys¬ 
ical diseases which now plague humanity will 
be no more. I published the following words 
in 1904—they are still true: 

“It is a time of testing. The undeveloped 
elements of the world will test our strength. 
Those who are looking to the truth for poise 
and power will need to be strong in their 
faith in order to ride through the mental 
storm; the faith of many will grow cold. 


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There is bound to be much deception and in¬ 
trigue in commercial and political life, be¬ 
cause the powers of avarice and ambition will 
have to fight for life. There will be many 
downfalls and much misfortune, and, as is 
always the case in this undeveloped world of 
ours, the innocent suffer with the guilty. 

“All who build on a foundation of honor 
and integrity will have more chance of per¬ 
manent success in the future. Those who 
gain a footing on the rock of success will be 
able to demonstrate success against all obsta¬ 
cles. When the clouds pass away, the sun 
will seem brighter than ever before, because 
the storm will have purified the mental at¬ 
mosphere of the planet. 

“Rest in the faith of the angel worlds— 
all is GOOD. Pray for judgment and intui¬ 
tion to guide you in all your ways. Cultivate 
caution and discrimination in all dealings with 
the world. And above all, avoid disturbed 


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mental conditions. Cultivate your own soul 
and make an atmosphere of peace and har¬ 
mony by communion with God, the Spirit of 
your soul. Remember, when the storm rages, 
that the Spirit of Christ is in the boat with 
you; let His awakened presence speak peace 
to the waves and all will be well.” 


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XLI 


“€9g QSe ©one on <Barf&” 

npHERE is a state of Divine Consciousness 
A which is perfection. There is a realm 
where the love, wisdom and all other attri¬ 
butes of Divinity are so harmoniously blended 
that to the perceptive sense of the soul all is 
perfect. In that realm all substance has be¬ 
come so spiritual in its refinement that it 
responds most perfectly to the Will of Di¬ 
vinity, expressing in beauty of form and lumi¬ 
nous grace the highest degree of intelligence. 
In the ideal realm all is order and perfection. 
That realm is within and around us. 

Order is heaven’s first law because the Will 
of Divinity arranges all things according to 
wisdom which could not create imperfection. 

Every mind may see the beauty of that 
Wisdom and feel the power of Will which in¬ 
spires to perfection. 


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The ideal realm contains the fulness of 
divine power. From thence it flows through 
souls and human minds into the world of 
crude forces and brings them more and more 
to express perfection. 

All power is actively engaged in transform¬ 
ing all substance in an effort to manifest more 
and more of perfection. 

Omnipotence is now working in and 
through my nature to transform it into the 
image of perfection. 

I have faith in the activity of this living 
power. My faith is an aid to its manifesta¬ 
tion. 

The purpose of life is a perfect creation. I 
have faith in the purpose of life. By faith I 
cooperate to bring forth this Divine Purpose. 

I recognize Divine Perfection as the all of 
power in this Presence. I deny from my mind 
every belief in imperfection. 

All power here is Perfection. 


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There is nothing in this Presence but Per¬ 
fection. 

The radiant light of Perfection dissolves 
all weakness, sin and imperfection from this 
Presence. 

My mind has become one with the Con¬ 
sciousness of Perfection, and I can know and 
feel only perfection as the reigning power of 
my being. 


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XLII 


(Berm* of Organising (potter 

rriHE earth is vitalized and glorified with 
beautiful forms of life by the life that 
proceeds from God. The spiritual germs of 
all things are from God. 

Considerable attention is given by biologists 
at the present time to the combination of 
chemical elements to produce forms of life 
or fertilizing existing germs of life by mere 
chemical processes, and they feel that they 
may discover how to combine elements at will 
to create forms. They are imitating nature 
and striving to prove that life is nothing more 
than chemical action. They convince them¬ 
selves that this is so because they have no 
knowledge of the interior workings of life. 
Life will supply the spiritual germ that lays 
hold of matter and builds form, whenever the 


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conditions of substance, heat and light are 
made. Biologists merely make the conditions, 
and life gives the germ of organizing power. 
There is food for deep thought in the fact 
that the dry sands of the desert, which have 
not known seeds for hundreds of years, will 
quickly give birth to myriads of flowers, 
weeds, shrubs and trees if supplied with 
water. Seeds would soon have been ground 
to dust by the whirling sands had they ever 
been deposited on the desert, so this miracle 
of spontaneous generation is due entirely to 
the God-given germs of life. 

There is enough richness hidden in the 
desert to feed humanity for ages to come. 
If man will dig for the water, life will form 
substance into vegetation and transform it into 
food., 

God’s life alone is to be praised for the 
glorification of the earth with strong and 
beautiful manifestations of life and intelli- 


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gence. Life can transform earth into spot¬ 
less lily and richest-hued flowers, radiant with 
purity and loveliness. These gems of beauty 
are magnets drawing upon the all-pervading 
life of God in nature for vitality, and their 
power to do this exists by reason of their 
God-given germ of life. 

You have a spiritual power to draw these 
life-germs into your nature. Meditate upon 
them as bright sparks of spiritual substance 
in earth and air. Feel that you are inbreath¬ 
ing them with every breath. Pray that the 
germs of organized life may fill your body 
with greater power to organize life. Absorb 
these germs of life until your body is all alive 
with the creative power that transforms the 
earth and your physical body will be renewed 
and made over by the power you have drawn 
from the Invisible Source. 


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XLIII 


<E»ob te Jmntorfdf £tfe tn (Ue 

lV/T an ; s immortality is both affirmed and 
^ A denied on the evidence of Scripture. 
Those who believe that man is not inherently 
immortal but will receive immortality for his 
faithfulness to God “at the resurrection of 
the righteous at the last day” bring forward 
such quotations as, “The soul that sinneth, it 
shall die,” and, “but every one shall die for his 
iniquity.” No discrimination is made as to 
the original of the word used. Sometimes the 
word “soul” in the original text means the 
animal life, then again it means the mind, and 
still again the divine Spirit in man. And the 
same is true of the word “Spirit.” Again the 
words “die” and “death” have both a phys¬ 
ical and spiritual meaning. Thus many mis¬ 
conceptions arise from imperfect translations 


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of the Scriptures as well as from mistakes 
that have crept into the manuscripts while 
they were being copied and recopied and 
passed from generation to generation down 
through the ages. 

We must ever remember that our salva¬ 
tion and immortality depend not on a truth 
that was or will be, but on an eternal 
truth that is, and has now the same inher¬ 
ent potency that it had in the past. Our im¬ 
mortality depends on the truth that god is 
IMMORTAL AND GOD IS THE LIFE IN US. We 
know that everything mortal shall die or pass 
away into oblivion. All those parts of the 
mind that sin shall “die,” and they “die 
daily.” Death does not cease with the death 
of the body. The mind or spirit of man con¬ 
tinues to “die daily” in his spiritual home as 
he lays aside things of mortality. We have 
formed a false idea of the word “death.” It 
means transformation and growth into some- 


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thing better and finer, as the death of the 
seed that falls into the soil illustrates. Jesus 
used this illustration to show how by dying 
to the earthly we live in the spiritual. All 
depends on the point of view. If we look at 
the universe from the material point of view, 
we behold universal carnage and slaughter. 
It seems that God delights in the death of 
things, for the slain are on every hand, in 
every department of nature. It makes a 
ghastly picture. But the spiritual point of 
view reveals one great life working ceaselessly 
and intelligently to change, transform and 
glorify, ever seeking to make more perfect 
expressions of itself. This is the only true 
view-point as it reveals an everlasting Purpose 
at work, an ever-active Will that is never sat¬ 
isfied with its creation, but which ever seeks 
to make it better, greater and more complete 
through the manifestation of Infinite Intel¬ 
ligence. 


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XLIV 


3 @tm a Spirit of (Bfotnaf 

T am not weighed down by the cares of ma- 
terial life. I am an emancipated spirit, 
made free from sense limitations by the Grace 
and Truth of Jesus Christ. 

No thing or thought can interfere with the 
free flowing spring of joy that rises in my 
soul from the life of Divinity. God is Joy 
and to the perception of His infinite Soul 
there is no reason for sorrow or suffering. 
He is the Truth and sees the truth which is 
hidden to the sight of mortals, hence their 
lack of joy. 

I rejoice in the truth that God’s purposes 
for my soul can not be thwarted. 

I live in the bliss of His infinite Presence 
while time unfolds the possibilities and pow¬ 
ers of my being. 

I AM JOY. 


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I am eternal youth. I am not wearied by 
the passing years. Their cares and sorrows 
pass from memory as a dream forgotten and 
leave no markings on my mind. I am the 
consciousness of everlasting being that calmly 
contemplates the passing panorama of events 
undisturbed by transient experiences. 

I am superior to time and change because 
I am a soul of the Eternal. 

Be not cast down O mind of mine, for I 
will lift thee to heights of joy undreamed of, 
through the power of my immortal spirit. 
Only for a time shall we wear the guise of 
mortal limitation and then, when earth’s les¬ 
sons are learned, we shall be free to learn the 
more glorious lessons of a heavenly sphere, 
where we shall stand in the unclouded bright¬ 
ness of the Sun of Righteousness and know no 
more the weariness and darkness of earth. 


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XLV 


Qf)rager for f$e (passing ^ouf 

PRATHER of Angels and Spirits: 

Send Thy holy angels to bear this passing 
soul in its resting-place in the abode of the 
blest. Father, Thou hast prepared a place 
for it where it may abide in peace while be¬ 
ing cleansed of the disturbing sense of phys¬ 
ical limitations. Thy light shining upon it 
now from the realm immortal, dissolves all 
fear and awakens within it a mighty joy as 
it realizes that the bright shore of its divine 
home welcomes it to rest in peace after all its 
struggle in this “far country” of earth. 
Through Thy ministering spirits Thou wilt 
feed it with the words of Truth, which are 
the substance of immortal life. Thou wilt 
teach it and renew it daily with Thy divine 
power. Thou wilt mercifully unfold its latent 
powers to behold greater and greater reveal- 


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ments of truth in Thy eternal light, and it 
will ever know that it is one with Thee 
through all its experiences in realms of life. 

Father, through soul intuition and true 
faith I know all is well with this soul. I ban¬ 
ish all feelings of loss and sorrow which have 
their rise in ignorance of the mercy and truth 
of Thy immortal Presence. Through the 
eyes of faith I see bright realms aglow with 
the radiance of immortal spirits who live in 
Thy eternal life, and with them I rejoice that 
the burdens of earth need no longer be car¬ 
ried by this beloved one, who casts aside the 
weight of years to wing its way into the lumi¬ 
nous atmosphere of divine freedom. Father, 
let some of its exalted joy be wafted back to 
me as I patiently abide in Thy inner grace 
until my work here is finished and I, too, can 
fling aside the heaviness of earth to realize 
the freedom and joy of a spirit of eternal 
youth. 


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XLVI 


£$frenjf$ from f$e (tttdefer 

T) egeneration is the process of building 
* ^ a new house. When the house is pure 
through sanctification, then we can live in it 
and enjoy it, enjoy a life of truth and glad¬ 
ness. 

We seek through this gladness of heart 
and soul to pave a way that gladness may 
come to others. When you feel this gladsome 
happiness, you may rest assured there is a 
certainty within your new interior life that 
the things of this world are on the move for 
you. You feel then a new-born strength 
that makes it easy to accomplish things 
that heretofore have seemed to be hindered. 
This is a touch of the wondrous ability of the 
Master. Your soul has come in touch, 
through its devotion and love, with His great 


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ability. Thus the soul has gained His wis¬ 
dom and strength and is imparting it to the 
body, transfusing the flesh with a competency 
or ability to adjust to a great extent the diffi¬ 
cult situations the mortal self is consciously 
meeting in the earth world. This helpful 
strength from the Master is really heavenly 
inspiration. How altogether lovely is its 
goodness! There is in all this happy ability 
no shame or deceit. It never hurts or grieves. 
It never defrauds, but always helps in some 
way. It is the wonderful authority that comes 
from Jesus Christ. 

This is declared by spirits who do won¬ 
drous healing through the power imparted 
from the Master to be the Jesus Christ way, 
which is the easy way. The angelic, spiritual 
quality which emanates from such beings is 
from the Christ—wondrous, strong, benefi¬ 
cent, encouraging. This cheering spirit per¬ 
vades you and fills you with glorified strength. 


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It is the unconquerable spirit that rises up and 
knows not danger. 

Jesus’ own sweet love spirit tuned and 
charmed His every word. His spirit could 
carry a charm to His hearers that was fra¬ 
grant with the dews of heaven. He taught 
them from the inner channels of spiritual in¬ 
tuition. It was the Ray giving of itself from 
His soul to souls of others who had some¬ 
where in their natures a spiritual perception 
of truth. 

Give your indwelling spirit proper recogni¬ 
tion and freedom in seeking. Remember, it 
is filled with the breath of the mighty Christ. 
You can help it to manifest by affirming the 
truth within the spiritual mind. You can help 
your own spirit to liberate the divine energy 
until it will flow forth with power. 


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XLVII 


3n6re<rt6mg ©ttutte £o U 

T IE down, relax all your muscles and in¬ 
breathe the Spirit of Divine Love. Re¬ 
member, that the Father loves you when mor¬ 
tals seem to shut you out of their hearts. The 
Christ loves you with an affection that will 
endure forever. As you rest, let your mind 
ponder on the greatness of His love, and as 
your thoughts are lifted up above the petty, 
worrisome cares of mortal life in devotion to 
Him, you will feel His peace and strength 
entering into your soul. Imagine His Be¬ 
loved Presence standing by your side, bless¬ 
ing you with the almighty strength of His 
love. Breathe deeply of His love. Think 
that you are indrawing the radiance of His 
soul into every part of your being as you in¬ 
breathe His life and love. 


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By cultivating your imagination and your 
faith in this way, your mind will unite with 
His Spirit and you will actually feel that His 
Spirit is always with you. He is the Beloved 
of your soul. He will satisfy you with an 
undying love and satisfaction if you will give 
a little time each day to resting in and com¬ 
muning with His Presence. 

Think of His beautiful angelic Form many 
times during the day. Try to work with the 
idea that you are doing all to accomplish that 
which He ordained your soul to do. Do 
everything, even to drinking a glass of water, 
in the thought of His love, and His love will 
enter into the loveless corners of your life 
and fill them with light and peace. His love 
can provide for you in ways that seem im¬ 
possible to you in your present deprest state 
of mind. But in order to realize all the 
goodness and prosperity His Presence holds 
for you, you need to become acquainted with 


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Him as you would with any friend, by enter¬ 
ing into close companionship with Him. Talk 
with Him and express all the love of your 
heart toward Him. Love Him for love’s 
sake, and He will crown your soul with a 
consciousness of abiding love that nothing in 
this world or the next can take from you. 


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XLVIII 


tk ©oor to ©ttnntfg—QJenwtftott 

“ Thou shalt love the Lord with all thy heart, mind, 
soul and strength.’’ 

AlY soul adores the Supreme Being and 
feels deep devotion to Christ, the re- 
vealer of God’s mercy and love. 

Through cultivating the faculty of venera¬ 
tion I can gain the highest, holiest pleasure 
obtainable by man, and I shall realize the 
benefits of close communion with God. 

I will enthrone God in my soul and make 
His worship my chief duty as a means to 
attain perfection. I will cultivate fervency 
and faithfulness in prayer. 

God is the center of all my hope, love and 
aspiration. I worship Him in spirit and in 
truth. I desire to express His perfect qual- 


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ities and grow in the power of His Presence 
throughout eternity. 

Contemplation of the Infinite One does not 
weigh me with the sense of unworthiness or 
self-abasement, because I realize that it is 
God’s mind in me that comprehends God in 
the whole. I can not feel vile or sinful or 
guilty before God, as I realize that such feel¬ 
ings are but the vanity of mortal egotism. I 
do not dread divine wrath, for I know and 
feel that God is love. I am purified and re¬ 
deemed by the greatness and power of His 
Love and the Light of His Love dissolves 
all feelings of religious gloom and melan¬ 
choly and all ideas of future punishment and 
suffering. 

Father! Let a Ray of Thy serene Light 
penetrate this most exalted faculty of wor¬ 
ship and quicken it with spiritual life that I 
may have the joy of communion with Thee. 

Help me to realize that Thou art my 


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Father and my Friend, one with my soul, and 
yet so superior in Thy wisdom and power that 
I can, as a little child, look up to Thee in 
confidence and love, and trust to Thy abound¬ 
ing goodness. 


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XLIX 


QBmt>ofence, f$e <B>oob ^fomarttan 

“ Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.’* 

rpo quicken this faculty, use these affirma- 
A tions: 

I desire to make others happy. I am kind¬ 
ness and sympathy personified. I feel gen¬ 
erous toward all. I delight to do good. A 
perpetual flow of disinterested goodness 
springs from my soul. I love to relieve pain 
and distress. 

Contemplation of the Christ character 
stimulates my faculty of benevolence. In 
communion with the Spirit I feel the love 
which melts my selfishness and inspires me 
with generous and kindly feelings toward 
foes as well as friends. I am a benevolent 


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spirit. I want to express practical goodness 
in sentiment and conduct. I desire to express 
benevolence in all the little affairs of life, in 
every look and action. I pray that my char¬ 
acter and conduct may be seasoned with this 
divine sentiment. 

My soul partakes of the pity and compas¬ 
sion of the Divine Nature and from It I feel 
a spontaneous outflow of good feelings to¬ 
ward all humanity, which causes me to desire 
to make others happy. My soul inspires 
feelings of hospitality, philanthropy and 
sympathy for distress. I desire to make all 
truth known to mankind because through it 
will come the greatest good. 

While expressing kindness in thought and 
action, I will use judgment in giving so as not 
to exceed my strength or means. 

I will be kind to myself as well as to others, 
and conserve my money and strength wisely, 
so that I shall be better able to bestow. 


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Divine Wisdom reveals the true balance of 
selfishness and generosity, so that I can do 
the most good without harming myself or 
others. 


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L 

$tMfit>ene 60 i$t Creative 3 tt 0 ftncf 


T ove and admiration of the opposite sex 
exists in all forms of life as the activity 
of the amative faculty whereby opposites are 
attracted together for the perpetuity of the 
race. 

The power of this faculty develops all 
feminine charms and graces, and renders 
woman winning, persuasive, urbane, affec¬ 
tionate, loving and lovely. To man it gives 
the feeling of nobility, making him gallant, 
tender and bland in manner. It elevates his 
aspirations, strengthens the affections and 
clothes him with that dignity, power and 
persuasiveness which accompanies the mascu¬ 
line nature. “It softens all proud, irascible 
and antisocial feelings and conduct toward 


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the opposite sex, and augments all the kindly 
and benevolent affections.” 

Affirmations for directing this pri¬ 
mal FORCE FOR GOOD: 

This faculty enables me to appreciate the 
beauty and excellences of the opposite sex. 
It gives vigor to my mind and makes me a 
center of attractive influence. 

I am strongly and perfectly sexed, but all 
this power feeds and strengthens my higher 
faculties. I observe and appreciate the ex¬ 
cellences of the opposite sex and overlook 
their faults. I feel a warm, cordial friend¬ 
ship for them and enjoy the inspiring in¬ 
fluence that results from the blending of 
minds and ideas while in conversation with 
them. I realize and enjoy the mental life 
that results from the mingling of opposite 
mental elements. 

I direct this love element to the mental and 
not to the physical qualities of the other sex. 


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I admire them for their nobility, goodness, 
virtue and not as means to gratify the pas¬ 
sional nature. I am content to commune with 
their spirits, to derive moral elevation and 
intellectual inspiration therefrom, and in turn 
to exert my influence to sanctify and elevate 
the tone of love and friendship that it may 
be like that enjoyed by free spirits in heaven. 

I will purify, elevate and rightly direct the 
wonderful force of passion that it may enable 
me to become a mighty center of attraction 
and influence for good in my sphere of ac¬ 
tivity. 

I will seek the society of the virtuous and 
avoid that of the vulgar. I will not listen 
to conversation that inflames the sensual na¬ 
ture, but will cultivate intellectual thought, 
pure feelings, and moral tone that will lift 
me to a higher human plane of being. 


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LI 


TJJroitg Cftniitttjj (ttot $e Ottfg Cause 
of Snbigecftott 

Every power, bodily and mental, is increased by 
“good spirits,’ * which is our name for a general emotional 
satisfaction. The truth that the fundamental vital actions 
—those of nutrition—are furthered by laughter-moving 
conversation, or rather by the pleasurable feelings causing 
laughter, is one of old standing ; and every dyspeptic 
knows that in exhilarating company a large and varied din¬ 
ner, including not very digestible things, may be eaten with 
impunity, and indeed with benefit, while a small, care¬ 
fully chosen dinner of simple things, eaten in solitude, will 
be followed by indigestion. Every pleasure increases 
vitality; every pain decreases vitality. Every pleasure 
raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life. 

Herbert Spencer. 

rilHE joy and enthusiasm generated by the 
perception of a mighty spiritual truth 
has been to many a cure for dyspepsia, so 
that where they could eat little or nothing 


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and were always sick, now they eat what 
they like with benefit. This is true where the 
cause of indigestion is worry, discontent, a 
hopeless state of mind, or a life of monoto¬ 
nous sameness without the fulfilment of am¬ 
bition or realization of hopes or aspirations. 
A change of mental or physical environment 
will often result in a cure of indigestion in¬ 
duced by these mental states, but when we 
find people living in mental harmony and 
still suffering from indigestion, we begin to 
see that the mental attitude is not all; proper 
food combinations may be the only means of 
cure in these cases. 

The finest and best food, properly com¬ 
bined, will not make good blood if the mind 
is full of envy and jealousy, discontented and 
tempestuous. Wrecked hopes and mental 
depression will poison the blood of the most 
vital person. On the other hand, I have seen 
leaders in the doctrine that it does not make 


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any difference what one eats so the mind is 
right, become coarse and heavy both in looks 
and weight in their effort to help along the 
evolution of hogs, as they said, by eating 
them—as tho the evolving ego of the hog 
remained in its flesh. 

It would be well for each one to study his 
food habits and learn just what to eat and 
how much or little he can get along with and 
get the best results from his body. 


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LII 


%oi fetfffe, But (Bat Zfat Ettffe Eong 

T\yT Y spirit is a wonderful alchemist. It 
^ transforms the crude elements of earth 
partaken of as food into the finer elements of 
flesh and blood, bones and nerves. This 
spiritual alchemist works mainly through the 
sense of taste. My spirit possesses all power 
of assimilating food elements and recon¬ 
structing a new body through its enjoyment 
of the pleasure of taste. Taste is its sym¬ 
pathetic sense whereby it comes in touch with 
the qualities of food elements and through 
this sympathy it knows what chemical ele¬ 
ments to manufacture, and then it sets in 
motion all the secretory glands of mouth and 
stomach, pancreas and bowels to assimilate 
the elements necessary in the rebuilding of 
the body. Without taste my spirit does not 

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know what is being eaten, and hence can not 
properly digest or transform it to serve its 
purpose in building a healthy body. I will 
cultivate the appreciation of food values by 
concentrating my attention on the flavor of 
each article of food. I will anticipate the 
pleasures of taste before meals and thorough¬ 
ly masticate so as to fully enjoy every mouth¬ 
ful at meals; thus I will develop my alimen- 
tative faculty through which my spirit has 
all power to transform food into healthy 
flesh and blood. 

I will be sociable and agreeable, hopeful 
and happy while at the table, and thus stimu¬ 
late an activity of the entire sympathetic 
nervous system in producing perfect nutrition. 

I will masticate thoroughly that I may so 
saturate the food with saliva and magnetize 
its every atom with my personal magnetism 
that it will be thoroughly dominated by my 
spirit. By mastication I will attune the vi- 


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bration of the food to the vibration of my 
spirit and then it can not tax my digestive 
powers, for it is brought under subjection of 
the will of my spirit through the exercise of 
my will in chewing it. Through this atten¬ 
tion to the taste center in the tongue I am 
increasing the amount of digestive fluids and 
ferments and gaining mental power in the 
direction of good digestion, perfect assimila¬ 
tion and vital activity throughout my body. 
This will result in new strength and en¬ 
durance, greater hopefulness and ambition, 
and increased joy and enthusiasm in my work. 


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LIII 


(gtebifafton on %cbm Cflrtef 

man with Heart of God, my heart 
would rest in Thee. Thy voice calls 
me from barren speculations and philoso¬ 
phies, from wearisome ambitions and mortal 
schemes, to the peace and satisfaction of Thy 
Presence of Divine Love. 

Thou art the goal of all my hopes and as¬ 
pirations. It matters not how many by-paths 
of experience I enter, in the end after all the 
struggle and sorrow, I will realize the truth 
that Thou art the aim of my evolution; to 
reach Thy state of love is the object of the 
soul’s progression. I need to abide in Thee 
every hour that Thy Spirit may hold me 
above the turbulent waves of mortal care. 
These words are music to my soul. 


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Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace 
Whose mind is stayed on Thee 
Because he trusteth in Thee. 

From Thy birth dates the Dynasty of 
Love, the opening of the gates of celestial 
health. Thy words of power were the seeds 
of truth which in their growth and fruitage 
in this world will emancipate man from the 
slavery of priestcraft and mortal creeds that 
by cruel condemnation hurl human minds into 
depths of fearful torment. 

Through Thee the mercy and grace of the 
Heavenly Father-Mother have become en¬ 
throned in the heart of man, and as Thy 
spirit of pity, love and tenderness grows in 
the human breast, will the kingdom of broth¬ 
erly love, justice and peace become a mighty 
reality. 

Thy vision of the divine motherhood in 
womankind will melt the harsh cruelty of 
woman for woman, and dissolve from man 


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the terrible lusts under which his gentler, 
feminine self is enslaved. 

O Gentle Soul of God that in manhood 
didst speak the words of pardon and uplift- 
ment for woman, all motherhood worships 
and praises Thee for Thy sympathy and deep 
comprehension. 

Thy mind outgrew the mortal limits of 
family ties, and the whole race became to 
Thee one vast family—the poor, the weak, 
the mean and the opprest mothered as equal 
children by one bountiful nature and cared 
for impartially by the All Father’s love. 

Thy love for Thy country and race be¬ 
came so great and comprehensive that it 
passed the barriers of patriotism. Racial 
prejudice and mortal affection were lost in a 
love so deep and profound that it felt for and 
lived in all humanity. Thy personal love be¬ 
came the boundless love of God. 

To feel God’s love for humanity as Thou 


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didst feel it is the highest goal of attainment. 
To lose my selfish qualities, my personal de¬ 
sires, in the deep harmony of love, to be car¬ 
ried out and beyond myself by the profound 
emotions of the soul, to feel and be swayed 
by the movement of the Breath of God, re¬ 
vealing the deep realities of eternal life, is 
to know the life of Love. 

O Master of Love, breathe upon my heart 
that I may live the life of love Divine. Let 
all my service be inspired by the tenderness 
of the Mother Spirit that I may heal and up¬ 
lift the sad and weary souls of mortals and 
lead them into the way celestial. 


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liv; 


(& C^riefmdB (tttebtfafton 

’1^7 E celebrate the birth of a babe. A liv- 
* * ing Pearl of Divine Light and Love 
was the life of this baby form. It meant so 
much to the world that this most precious 
pearl should become a living babe. It was 
the most important occasion in the history of 
the world. Those glorious angels of God, 
the “Morning Stars,” sang together, and the 
Sons of God rejoiced. Great joy filled all 
heavenly souls that the most luminous Gem 
in the Holy of Holies should seek to fill the 
world with the light of heaven. 

That was a wondrous child. Angels of 
light watched its every breath. The great¬ 
ness of that soul filled even its earliest 
thoughts with divine intelligence. That soul 


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had entered human form to accomplish a 
mighty purpose, one upon which depended 
the welfare of all the millions of human souls 
yet to be born on earth. Every moment the 
wonderful intelligence of that soul must de¬ 
velop in its mind some living thought of 
truth. That soul knew the Father of all 
lives. Human minds must be taught of the 
Father, so that soul used the pictures in 
Nature’s wonder-book to illustrate the truth 
of the Father’s love and tender providence. 

As the boy grew, the importance of his 
mission dawned on his mind. His soul over¬ 
whelmed his mind with its knowing. He 
could not feel or think aught but that which 
his soul allowed. As his mind developed, his 
soul expanded. He was gifted to hear and 
see spiritual realities, and he was in con¬ 
scious fellowship with the beings of two 
worlds, while his soul was in vibrant accord 
with the Omniscient Father. His intuition 


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was open and clear. The meaning of all that 
appeared before his spiritual and physical 
sight was made plain to his mind. He was 
in the School of Life with the Father and 
His angels as teachers. He was in sympathy 
with all things as part of the nature of God. 
Mother Nature revealed to him her inmost 
secrets. Tracing all lives to the great life of 
God, he knew that all were children of the 
one Father. He saw that man and animal, 
tree and clod, had evolved from the one, 
boundless nature of God; that all were one 
substance, dependent upon the one source for 
life and intelligence; and seeing this great 
basic truth, his love grew to embrace all 
creatures, great and small. 

May his love glow within your heart this 
Christmas-tide and fill your soul with joy and 
praise. 


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LV 


©ernes for ffle Qtew Tgedt 


J^ivine Father! 

Thy Spirit of goodness blesses the coming 
days of the New Year with the seed of every 
attainment my heart craves. 

Thy Omnipotence broods over the days of 
January. Each and every one meets me 
laden with power for my soul. 

Darkness and the shadows of evil are dis¬ 
solved from February by Thy Spirit of 
Truth. Each day is luminous with Divine 
Wisdom. 

March enters my life with the inspiration 
of Thy invigorating Spirit of Joy—the tri¬ 
umphant joy of the soul. 

The days of April are blest by Thee with 


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the consciousness of new life—the inflowing 
of Thy Life, which brings health and per¬ 
fection. 

May awakens my spirit to feel the great¬ 
ness and glory of Thy Love. My soul re¬ 
vels in its sweetness and grace. 

My soul knows Thy Peace during the se¬ 
rene days of June —eternal peace. 

Thy Spirit of Absolute Freedom dominates 
my life during the days of July. I am eman¬ 
cipated from all evil. 

Thou doth strengthen me with Thy Will 
each day in August. I will do Thy Will and 
know Thy Truth. 

September is filled with the realization of 
Thy Omnipotence. 

In October I receive the harvest from Thy 
Infinite Bounty. 

The days of November are filled with 
praise for Thy Bounty, Goodness and Wis¬ 
dom. 


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Praise lifts my mind into the Illumination 
of Thy Perfect Presence and the Christ 
Spirit of Love and tenderness is born anew 
in my soul, and all my world rejoices with 
the “glad tidings of great joy.” 

Immanuel is here! 

The Glory Light of the Immaculate One 
illumines your soul. 

The Glory Light of Jesus Jehovah is 
purifying all the faculties of your soul. 

Your soul can see the Glory Light. Like 
a search-light of Divine Intelligence, it fo¬ 
cuses its beam in your soul and fills your 
faculties with the consciousness of eternal 
peace. 

Your soul and the Glory Light are one, and 
that one is the beneficent presence of your 
Savior. 

You are being healed by His Grace. 


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